Notable Quotable 48

Jan 11, 2023

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

- Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

- Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

- Jay Leno

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

- Mark Twain

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

- Ron Paul

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

- G. Edward Griffin

Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens.

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

- Ludwig von Mises

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to partake in the lie.

One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

- Susan Ertz

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time."

- Mircea Eliade

The paralysis of potential is essential to the manufacturing of victims.

- Stefan Molyneux