top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Standard
Customized
More
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There shall be no end to the government of God."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The ugliest government is the one which is spreading fear to its own people! The finest government is the one which encourages its own people to criticize the government harshly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."
Politics
"Microbes are doing things we didn't even know they could do 10 years ago."
Science
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
Government
"Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
Heart
"To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds."
Patriotism
"We can afford no liberties with liberty itself."
Liberty
"Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money."
Man
"The places that are most likely to grow trees for carbon sequestration are places where trees aren't growing now."
Now
"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act."
Politics
"When the Supreme Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions."
Quality
bottom of page