Thought for the day – March 31, 2007
Spiro T. Agnew, Vice President of the United States [resigned and dead]
“Unless sage debate replaces the belligerent strutting now used so extensively, reason will be consumed and the death of logic will surely follow.”
Thought for the day – March 30, 2007
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
Benjamin Franklin*
* occurs in the “Conclusion” (p. 333) of his book Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994) ISBN 0312123337 (Amazon)
Thought for the day – March 29, 2007
No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Thought for the day – March 28, 2007
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much … to forget it.
Thought for the day – March 27, 2007
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.
Thought for the day – March 26, 2007
…Unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges, you will find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have passed into the hands of these corporations.
— Andrew Jackson (farewell address March 04, 1837)
I have created a new Category for my blog called Thought for the Day. This is the first in the series.
Thanks to Tweeny for bringing this one to my attention.
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