Quotes of the Week

The...vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the... virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- W. Churchill

People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.
– Margaret Thatcher.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Louis Brandeis

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- Benjamin Franklin

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
- William Howard Taft

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
– H.L. Mencken