ProudConservative.com - Quote of the Day June 2011

QUOTE OF THE DAY
JUNE 2011

QUOTE: 6-30-11
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it
pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the
stage of rule by brute force."
Ayn Rand

QUOTE: 6-29-11
"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement,
and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government."
President Thomas Jefferson

QUOTE: 6-28-11
"We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important
for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to
consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles."
Frederic Bastiat

QUOTE: 6-27-11
"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
Benjamin Franklin

QUOTE: 6-26-11
"Speaking quite dispassionately, and simply as a historian, the Democrats can be trusted invariably to walk in the
darkness even when to walk in the light would be manifestly to their advantage."
President Teddy Roosevelt

QUOTE: 6-25-11
"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can only gain at the
expense of another."
Milton Friedman

QUOTE: 6-24-11
"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it."
Alexis de Tocqueville

QUOTE: 6-23-11
"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore
the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
President Ronald Reagan

QUOTE: 6-22-11
"And these [great natural rights] may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security, the
right of personal liberty, and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or
of abridging man's natural free will, but by an infringement or diminution of one or other of these important rights, the
preservation of these, inviolate, may justly be said to include the preservation of our civil immunities in their largest and
most extensive sense."
Sir William Blackstone

QUOTE: 6-21-11
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his
treatment of animals."
Immanuel Kant

QUOTE: 6-20-11
"Nobody can be at the same time a correct bureaucrat and an innovator."
Ludvig Von Mises

QUOTE: 6-19-11
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
President Dwight D. Eisenhower

QUOTE: 6-18-11
"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger between state and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini

QUOTE: 6-17-11
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."
Thomas Paine

QUOTE: 6-16-11
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself
up by the handle."
Winston Churchill

QUOTE: 6-15-11
"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
Samuel Adams

QUOTE: 6-14-11
"Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
Thomas Sowell

QUOTE: 6-13-11
"The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy."
Henry Hazlitt

QUOTE: 6-12-11
"In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a brave and scarce man, hated and scorned. When the cause succeeds,
however, the timid join him...for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
Mark Twain

QUOTE: 6-11-11
"Law cannot organize labor without organizing injustice."
Frederic Bastiat

QUOTE: 6-10-11
"...nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From
apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage."
Alexander Fraser Tytler

QUOTE: 6-9-11
"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."
John Locke

QUOTE: 6-8-11
"A revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the
{firing squad} wall!"
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

QUOTE: 6-7-11
"One man with courage makes a majority."
President Andrew Jackson

QUOTE: 6-6-11
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Barry Goldwater

QUOTE: 6-5-11
"Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
Volataire

QUOTE: 6-4-11
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to
restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."
Patrick Henry

QUOTE: 6-3-11
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
George Orwell

QUOTE: 6-2-11
"I can tell you this, that there are -- I have photographs. I don't know what photographs are out there in the world of
me."
Anthony Weiner

QUOTE: 6-1-11
"Most nepotism in Hollywood isn't familial, it's ideological. Friends hire friends. And those friends just happen to share
their politics."
Ben Shapiro

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