Some quotations
Heather at Driftwood pointed me at this page of quotations. There are some old favourites in there, but also some I’d not heard before and that resonate worryingly with our current political situation.
- One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation. (Thomas B. Reed (1886))
- The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. (Tacitus)
- There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. (Robert Heinlein)
- [On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. (Edward Gibbon)
- Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it? (Harlon Carter)
pax et bonum
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