by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Founders, Government, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. Courtesy of...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 4, 2013 | Equality, Quotes
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality – an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order. Courtesy of BrainyQuote
