"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)
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am." ~~ Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
"According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit and almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition." ~~ Albert Jay Nock; The Memoirs of a Superfluous Man
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it" ~~ George Bernard Shaw
"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."~~Nikita Khrushchev
"All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person."~~Vladimir Lenin
"There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual."~~ Benito Mussolini
"The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual"~~Adolph Hitler
"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."~~Hillary Clinton, 1993
Many of you are well enough off that... the tax cuts may have helped you... We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. -- Sen. Hillary Clinton, San Francisco, June 28, 2004 ~ or...
"...from each according to his means, to each according to his needs." -- Karl Marx, 19th Century
