Quotes of the week

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the gov't and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
– Albert Einstein

We don’t know as much as we think we do… be cautious about policies that seek to reshape the world.
– Nick Gillespie

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all.
– Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

For bureaucrats, procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
– Thomas Sowell

This government never of itself furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
– Henry David Thoreau

Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.
– Woodrow Wilson

It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.
– James Madison

America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.
– Henry Steele Commager

One of the things the government can't do is run anything.
– Lee Iacocca

The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
– William Greider

We’re a bunch of thumb-sucking babies worrying about whether Shark Week has lost its integrity…
- Dan Harmon