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"THE REPUBLICAN IS THE ONLY FORM OF GOVERNMENT WHICH IS NOT ETERNALLY AT OPEN OR SECRET WAR WITH THE RIGHTS OF MANKIND."
Thomas Jefferson (March 11, 1790)
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"HERE, THEN, IS THE HARMONIOUS LAW THAT CAN BE EXPRESSED THUS: THROUGH LABOR THE ACTION OF MAN IS COMBINED WITH THE ACTION OF NATURE. FROM THIS CO-OPERATION UTILITY RESULTS. EACH INDIVIDUAL TAKES FROM THE GENERAL STORE OF UTILITY IN PROPORTION TO THE SERVICES THAT HE RENDERS - IN THE LAST ANALYSIS, THEN, IN PROPORTION TO THE UTILITY HE HIMSELF REPRESENTS."
F. Bastiat (Economic Harmonies)
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"THE TRUE WORTH OF A MAN IS TO BE MEASURED BY THE OBJECTS HE PURSUES."
Marcus Aurelius
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"THE GREATER THE DIFFICULTY, THE GREATER THE GLORY."
Cicero
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"GENIUS IS 10% INSPIRATION, 90% PERSPIRATION."
Thomas Edison
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"FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD."
Virgil
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"DESTINY IS NOT A MATTER OF CHANCE, IT IS A MATTER OF CHOICE."
William Jennings Bryan
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"WE HAVE SCARCITY IN THE MIDST OF ABUNDANCE AND THE ONLY REMEDY MODERN STATESMANSHIP CAN OFFER IS TO DESTROY THE ABUNDANCE."
F. Bastiat (Economic Fallacies)
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"LET US HAVE A GOVERNMENT BY WHICH OUR LIVES, LIBERTIES, AND PROPERTIES WILL BE SECURED."
George Washington (1786)
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"THE NATURAL EFFORT OF EVERY INDIVIDUAL TO BETTER HIS OWN CONDITION, WHEN SUFFERED TO EXERT ITSELF WITH FREEDOM AND SECURITY, IS SO POWERFUL A PRINCIPLE, THAT IT IS ALONE AND WITHOUT ANY ASSISTANCE, NOT ONLY CAPABLE OF CARRYING ON THE SOCIETY TO WEALTH AND PROSPERITY, BUT OF SURMOUNTING A HUNDRED IMPERTINENT OBSTRUCTIONS WITH WHICH THE FOLLY OF HUMAN LAWS TOO OFTEN ENCUMBERS ITS OPERATIONS."
Adam Smith (Wealth Of Nations)
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"THE SOCRATIC MAXIM THAT THE RECOGNITION OF OUR IGNORANCE IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM HAS PROFOUND SIGNIFICANCE FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIETY."
F. Hayek (The Constitution of Liberty)
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"IF I HAVE SEEN FARTHER THAN OTHER MEN IT IS BECAUSE I HAVE STOOD ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS."
Sir Isaac Newton
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"THE MORE COMPLETELY WE ARE PLANNED (A WELFARE STATE) THE MORE POWERFUL THEY (MASTER PLANNERS) WILL BE. HAVE WE DISCOVERED SOME NEW REASON WHY, THIS TIME, POWER SHOULD NOT CORRUPT AS IT HAS DONE BEFORE?"
C.S. Lewis (God in the Dock)
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"POWER CORRUPTS; ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY."
Lord Acton
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"THE MISFORTUNE OF A REPUBLIC IS, WHEN THERE ARE NO MORE INTRIGUES; AND THIS HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE ARE CORRUPTED BY DINT OF MONEY: IN WHICH CASE THEY GROW INDIFFERENT TO PUBLIC CONCERNS, AND PASSIONATELY DESIROUS OF LUCRE. CARELESS OF THE GOVERNMENT, AND OF EVERY THING BELONGING TO IT, THEY QUIETLY WAIT FOR THEIR SALARY."
Montesquieu (The Spirit of Laws)
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"THE GREAT AND CHIEF END THEREFORE, OF MEN'S UNITING INTO COMMONWEALTHS, AND PUTTING THEMSELVES UNDER GOVERNMENT, IS THE PRESERVATION OF THEIR PROPERTY."
John Locke (Two Treatises of Government)
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"OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS, WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY, RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSABLE SUPPORTS. IN VAIN WOULD THAT MAN CLAIM THE TRIBUTE OF PATRIOTISM, WHO SHOULD LABOUR TO SUBVERT THESE GREAT PILLARS OF HUMAN HAPPINESS, THESE FIRMEST PROPS OF THE DUTIES OF MEN AND CITIZENS."
George Washington (Farewell Address)
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