Famous Quotes and intelligent Notes
In the end We will remember
Not the words of our enemies
But the silence of our friends
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Political Reform
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
— Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
— Benjamin Franklin
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins; all of them imaginary.
— H.L. Mencken
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
— John Curran, July 10, 1790, in a speech about electing the mayor of Dublin
Never confuse the stated purpose of legislation with what it would actually accomplish. Most enactments will be ineffective or counterproductive.
— Jon Roland, September 8, 2004
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered. — Attributed to Lyndon B. Johnson or Hubert Humphrey, but unconfirmed.
"Government is like a hammer, good for pounding nails but not for surgery." — Jon Roland, June, 1995.
The price good people pay for their indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. — Plato (427-347 BC)
Trying to solve public problems without first achieving strict compliance with the Constitution is like trying to take a motor trip through the mountains without brakes or a steering wheel. — Jon Roland, 1997
In politics, there are no lasting victories and no permanent defeats. — Old saying
In law nothing is ever finally settled — New saying
"No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it."
— Will Turner, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them (public offices), a rottenness begins in his conduct.
— Thomas Jefferson
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
— Abba Eban
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. — 1 Tucker (N.Y. Surr.) 249 (1866)
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