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Let it alone. Let it pass by.
[Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
Let it alone. Let it pass by.
[Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of read more
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses read more
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of read more
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.