Comments on: Liberty

By: jay

jay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:32:13 +0000

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
~Oscar Wilde

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
~Robert A. Heinlein

By: danny

danny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:49:40 +0000

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. – Edmund Burke

By: John Sinteur

John Sinteur — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:05:55 +0000

More! More!

By: jay

jay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:57:16 +0000

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960

I maintain that cosmic religiousness is the strongest and most noble driving force of scientific research.
Albert Einstein

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson

The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.
John F. Kennedy

‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter’.
Martin Luther King Jr.

By: John Sinteur

John Sinteur — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:57:53 +0000

They were sent to me by a regular reader, so take your guess

By: Kharkov

Kharkov — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:18:02 +0000

John, did you choose this article BECAUSE of the comments in the preceding article or was it random?

Because it dovetails nicely…