"(The) independent, self-sufficient approach to life is the fundamental sin of so many of
us... It is the refusal of grace. It is the failure to acknowledge Abba as the Divine
Almsgiver. It is Adam and Eve reaching for the apple all over again. But, luckily,
self-sufficiency can take us only so far. Sooner or later we run up against a brick wall.
We get a sudden glimpse into our existential self-deficiency. We finish eating the apple
and discover, a few hours later, that we are hungry again. We gradually realize where we
actually are and where we truly belong."
Albert Haase
"I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do."
Edward Everett Hale, (1822-1909)
"Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism........... Socialism in America will come through the ballot box."
Gus Hall, Communist
Party USA,
Cleveland
Plain-Dealer, 1996
"A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their
eyes on the spot where the crack was."
Joseph Hall, (1574 - 1656)
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them."
William F. Halsey, (1882-1959, American admiral)
"The opinion advanced is undoubtedly correct, that foreigners will generally be apt to bring with them attachments to the persons they have left behind; to the country of their nativity, and to its particular customs and manners. They will also entertain opinions on government congenial with those under which they have lived; or, if they should be led hither from a preference to ours, how extremely unlikely is it that they will bring with them that temperate love of liberty, [italics in original] so essential to real republicanism? There may, as to particular individuals, and at particular times, be occasional exceptions to these remarks, yet such is the general rule. The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency."
Alexander Hamilton,
"Examinations
of Jefferson's Message to Congress of December 7th, 1801,"
Jan.12,
1802
"Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals."
Alexander Hamilton
"The establishment of the writ of habeas corpus ... are perhaps greater securities to
liberty and republicanism than any it [the Constitution] contains. ...The practices of
arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable
instruments of tyranny. ...
To bereave a man of life, or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or
trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must at once convey the
alarm of tyranny throughout the whole nation; but confinement of the person, by secretly
hurrying him to jail, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a
less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government."
Alexander Hamilton
"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and
sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
Alexander Hamilton
"Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have
begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and
ending tyrants."
Alexander Hamilton
"Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the
ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent
destruction of life and property incident to war�the continual effort and alarm attendant
on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty, to
resort for repose and security, to institutions, which have a tendency to destroy their
civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the
risk of being less free. The institutions alluded to are STANDING ARMIES, and the
correspondent appendages of military establishments."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 8 [November 20, 1787]
"In the general course of human nature, a power over man's substance amounts to a power
over his will."
Alexander Hamilton
"The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason
no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is
committed."
Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 23
(Statements like this are the reason I'm an Anti-Federalist. RAB)
"For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."
Alexander Hamilton (writing as Publius in Federalist No. 1)
"...[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties."
Alexander Hamilton
"Can any reasonable man be well
disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means
of supporting itself?"
Alexander Hamilton
"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.""Inequality will exist as long as liberty exists. It unavoidably results from that
Alexander Hamilton
(Good thinking, Alex baby! RAB)
"In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the
questions life puts to us."
Dag Hammarskjold
Judge Learned Hand (1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit
of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women..."
Judge Learned Hand, Source: Speech, 21 May 1944
"All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset
existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification."
Judge Learned Hand
"There are only two important things in politics. The first is money and I can't remember the second."
"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are
already enough people to do that."
G. H. Hardy
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not
do that is inconsolable."
Sydney J. Harris, (1917-1986)
"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is
for things to remain the same but get better."
Sydney J. Harris
"Atheism... tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason."
Sydney J. Harris
(Oh,
the burdens of omnipotent Empire. RAB, webmaster)
"Happiness is as a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which,
if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it."
"I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose."
S.I. Hayawawa
"The funny thing about human beings is that we tend to respect the intelligence of, and
eventually to like, those who listen attentively to our ideas even if they continue to
disagree with us."
S. I. Hayakawa, Educator and politician
| "There is all the difference in
the
world between treating people equally and
attempting
to make them equal."
F.A. Hayek (1899-1992),
Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974 "It
is
indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men
determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent
on doing evil." |
 |
"It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the
known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It
is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today."
F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (University of Chicago Press, 1972), p. 208
"Responsibility, not to a superior, but to one's conscience, the awareness of a duty not
exacted by compulsion, the necessity to decide which of the things one values are to be
sacrificed to others, and to bear the consequences of one's own decision, are the very
essence of any morals which deserve the name."
F.A. Hayek, 'The Road to Serfdom' (1944)
"Perhaps the fact that we have
seen
millions voting themselves into complete
dependence
on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's
government
is not necessarily to secure freedom."
F.A. Hayek
"What our
generation
has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most
important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but
scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of
the means of production is divided among many people acting
independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as
individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of
production were vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that
of 'society' as a whole or
that of a dictator, whoever exercises this
control has complete power over us."
F.A. Hayek, 'The Road to Serfdom' (1944)
"The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most
powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively
concerned with what they regard as the public good."
Friedrich August von Hayek, Source: The Constitution of Liberty, 1960
"[I]t is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being
arbitrary."
Friedrich August von Hayek, Source: The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1944), p. 71
"'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty
have been eroded - and once they are suspended it is not difficult for anyone who has
assumed such emergency powers to see to it that the emergency will persist."
"There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men -
the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power."
Robert Y. Haynes, U.S. Senator, January 21, 1830
William Hazlitt, (1778-1830) English Essayist
"Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain."
William Hazlitt
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be."
William Hazlitt
"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that."
William Hazlitt,
Characteristics
[1823]
"To be
capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest
proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind."
William Hazlitt
"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it."
William Hazlitt
"A politician will do anything to keep his job -- even become a patriot."
William Randolph Hearst
Chris Hedges, in
'War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning',
Public Affairs, 2002, p. 147
"The rush of
battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war
is
a drug, one I ingested for years. It is peddled by
mythmakers-historians,
war correspondents, filmmakers, novelists, and the state - all of whom
endow it with qualities it often does possess: excitement, exoticism,
power,
chances to rise above our small stations in life, and a bizarre and
fantastic
universe that has a grotesque and dark beauty. It dominates culture,
distorts
memory, corrupts language, and infects everything around it, even
humor,
which becomes preoccupied with the grim perversities of smut and death.
Fundamental questions about the meaning, or meaninglessness, of our
place
on the planet are laid bare when we watch those around us sink to the
lowest
depths. War exposes the capacity for evil that lurks not far below the
surface within all of us."
Chris Hedges, 'War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning'
"The vanquished know war.
They see through the empty jingoism of those
who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the
cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and
chest-pounding grief."
Chris Hedges, War: Realities and Myths
(W)ar
in the end
is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers
by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.
"Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil."
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988)
"The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and
"duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may
possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed."
Robert Heinlein
"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his
acts with his life."
Robert Heinlein
"Love your country, but never trust its government."
Robert Heinlein
"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do,
which isn't often, on their own, the hard way."
Robert Heinlein
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the
idea."
Robert A. Heinlein
"If we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs, if we had some eggs."
U.S. Senator Jesse Helms' definition of Socialism
"They
wrote in the old days that it is sweet and
fitting to die for one's country. But in modern
war, there is nothing
sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good
reason."
Ernest
Hemingway
"Never think that war, no matter
how necessary, nor how
justified, is not a crime."
Ernest Hemingway
"War
is no longer
made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever
was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and
dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them
into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted
reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule. And we in
America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually
or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into
a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all
the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to
an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the
time of crisis comes."
Ernest Hemingway,
'Notes on the Next War' in Esquire [September 1935]
"War
is a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead"
"By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us."
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but
sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces. Sanctified afflictions are spiritual
promotions...."
Matthew Henry
 |
"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."
"Fear is the passion of slaves."
"If he (the President) ever violates the laws, one of two things will happen: He shall come to the head of his army to carry everything before him; or, he will give bail, or do what Mr. Chief Justice will order him. If he be guilty, will not the recollection of his crimes teach him to make one bold rush for the American throne? Will not the immense difference between being master of everything, and being ignominiously tried and punished, powerfully excite him to make this bold push? But, Sir, where is the existing force to punish him? Can he not at the head of his army beat down every oppposition? Away with your President, we shall have a King: The army will salute him Monarch; your militia will leave you and assist in making him King, and fight against you: And what have you to oppose this force? What then will become of your rights? Will not absolute despotism ensue? ... This, Sir, is my great objection to the Constitution, that there is no true responsibility - and that the preservation of our liberty depends on the single chance of men being virtuous enough to make laws to punish themselves."
Anti-Federalist Speech in the Virginia
Ratifying Convention, June 5, 1788; (Mr. Henry was proven to be correct
when Mr. Lincoln came to power. RAB)
"A standing army we shall have, also, to execute the execrable commands of tyranny; and how are you to punish them? Will you order them to be punished? Who shall obey these orders? Will your mace-bearer be a match for a disciplined regiment?"
"To erect and concentrate and perpetuate a large monied interest ... must in the course of human events produce one or other of two, the prostration of agriculture at the feet of commerce, or a change in the present form of federal government, fatal to the existence of American liberty."
"....I am sure that the dangers of this system (the Federal Constitution) are real, when those who have no similar interest with the people of this country (the South) are to legislate for us - when our dearest rights are to be left, in the hands of those, whose advantage it will be to infringe them."
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."
Jun. 5, 1788 - from a speech opposing the adoption of the Constitution to the Virginia Ratifying Convention
"Such a government is incompatible with the genius of republicanism. There will be no checks, no real balances, in this government. What can avail your specious, imaginary balances, your rope-dancing, chain-rattling, ridiculous ideal checks and contrivances? ...It is on a supposition that your American governors shall be honest that all the good qualities of this government are founded; but its defective and imperfect construction puts it in their power to perpetrate the worst of mischiefs should they be bad men; and, sir, would not all the world blame our distracted folly in resting our rights upon the contingency of our rulers being good or bad? Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt."
Jun. 5, 1788 - from a speech opposing the adoption of the Constitution to the Virginia Ratifying Convention
"What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?"
cited in The Anti-Federalist, H. Storing, ed. (University of Chicago, 1985) p. 297
"Should I keep back my opinions through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself guilty of treason toward my country and an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."
"The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate. It is immutable. And if the moral order does not change, then it imposes on us obligations toward God and man. Duty, then, requires the willingness to accept responsibility and to sacrifice one's desires to a higher law."
"...We shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations...."
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government."
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me liberty or give me death!"
"The great object is that every man
be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun."
"Are we at
last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation
that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own
defense? Where is the
difference between having our arms under our own possession and under
our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If
our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can
they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our
own hands?"
Source: [3 J. Elliot, Debates in the Several State Conventions 45, 2d
ed. Philadelphia, 1836]
*End of Patrick
Henry*
TOP
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."
Katharine Hepburn, (1907-2003, American actress, writer)
"Man's character is his fate."
Heraclitus (c.540-480 BC) Greek philosopher
"Politics must be the battle of the principles --- the principle of liberty against the
principle of force."
Auberon Herbert, (1838-1906) English author
"Socialism is but Catholicism addressing itself not to the soul but to the sense of men...
[Both implore you to] accept authority, accept the force which it employs, resign yourself
to all-powerful managers, give up the free choice and the free act... They both seek to
sacrifice man."
Auberon Herbert
"[Socialism] is a creed even more denigrating than Catholicism, but it offers more
tangible bribes for its acceptance."
Auberon Herbert
"Force and reason -- which last is the essence of the moral act -- are at the two opposite
poles. The one who compels his neighbor... treats him, not as a being with reason, but as
an animal in whom reason is not."
Auberon Herbert
"Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, - a grateful heart; Not thankful
when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may
be Thy praise."
George Herbert, (1593-1632, British metaphysical poet)
"Storms make the oak grow deeper roots."
George Herbert
"Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks."
Herodotus, (BC 484-425, Greek historian)
"It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we
anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen."
Herodotus
"If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would
climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would pick more daisies. I would have more
actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones."
Don Herold, (1889 - 1966)
"I think the bottom-line difference between being single and being married is this: When
you're single you're as happy as you are. When you're married, you can only be as happy as
the least happy person in the apartment."
Tom Hertz
"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) (In Harold Kusher's, When All You've Ever Wanted
Isn't Enough [1986])
I became a tax resister, not simply because of war. Not simply because of wanting to
emulate the tax-free status of so many big corporations, and certainly not because of a
precise political position. I became a tax resister because I got mad and because
somewhere in everybody's life there probably is a fine line in the real world which you
will or cannot cross and which, often with the sudden sort of anger I felt, you balk at,
stand on, and fight on.
Karl Hess, (1923-1994) Libertarian writer
Herman Hesse, (1877-1962) Source: Reflections, 1974
"We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots, and executions. We kill when we close our
eyes to poverty, suffering, and shame. In the same way all disrespect for life, all hard-
heartedness, all indifference, all contempt is nothing else than killing. With just a
little witty skepticism we can kill a good deal of the future in a young person. Life is
waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it
and step on much of it with our feet."
Hermann Hesse
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part
of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
Hermann Hesse
"When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane."
Hermann Hesse
"Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be
unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency."
Charlton Heston
"Here's my credo. There are no good guns, There are no bad guns. A gun in the hands of a
bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a good man is no threat to anyone, except
bad people."
Charlton Heston
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress
can."
Cullen Hightower
"There is nothing
conservative
about war. For at least the last century war has
been the herald and
handmaid
of socialism and state control. It is the excuse for censorship,
organized
lying, regulation and taxation. It is paradise for the busybody and the
nark. ..."
Adolf Hitler, cited in
William Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 248f
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman, and child of this great country. We must
take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our Homeland."
Adolf Hitler (1933)
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator 1935
Source: Mein Kampf, p. 197. 14th Edition.
"National Socialism, as a matter of principle, must lay claim to the right to force its principles on the whole German nation without consideration of previous federated state boundaries."
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf.
In the quote above he argued for a new, tightly centralized Germany by
invoking the example of the United States and the triumph of the Union
over states' rights.
"All this was inspired by the principle - which is
quite
true in itself - that in the big lie
there is always a certain force of
credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more
easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than
consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of
their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the
small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little
matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It
would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and
they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort
the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be
so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and
waver and will continue to think that there may be some other
explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind
it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all
expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art
of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the
basest purposes."
Adolf Hitler, 1925 Mein Kampf
"During the time when men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe... where
every man is enemy to every man. In such conditions there is no place for Industry... no
Arts; no Letters; no Society:... and the life of man solitary, poore, nasty, brutish and
short."
Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679)
"I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen."
A. A.
Hodge (1823-1886)
"It is
easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth
than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand
up for it."
A. A. Hodge
Luther H. Hodges
Eric Hoffer,
(1902-1983) American author,
philosopher, Reflections
On The Human Condition
"There
is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will
go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague
stirrings of decency that go with individual judgement. When we lose
our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we
find a new freedom - freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and
betray without shame and remorse. Herein undoubtedly lies part of the
attractiveness of a mass movement."
"Every
device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief
purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications
are that such an impairment is
brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him
against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying
power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other.
Where power is one, the defeated individual,
however strong and
resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse."
"Absolute
power turns its possessors not into a God but
an anti-God. For God
turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay."
"Those
in
possession
of absolute power can not only prophesy and
make their prophecies come
true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."
"The great crimes of the twentieth century were committed not by money-grubbing capitalists but by dedicated idealists. Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler were contemptuous of money. The passage from the nineteenth to the twentieth century has been a passage from considerations of money to considerations of power."
"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are
free not to do."
"Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered.
The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good."
"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot
who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness
of sheep."
"To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from
restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of
willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate
the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all
responsibility."
"Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of
what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to
escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, 'to be free
from freedom.'"
"The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches
without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying
their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have
aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom
of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by
making others poor."
"Woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
"I doubt if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and for power -
power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they
want to retaliate."
Source: quoted in Eric Hoffer: An American Odyssey (Calvin Tompkins), 1968
"People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire
for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall
grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of
a "have not" type of self."
"You can never get enough of what you don't really need."
Moses Hoge
John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses
"Man has will, but woman has her way."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Herbert Hoover, (1874-1964), 31st U.S. President
"Older men
declare
war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And
it is youth who must
inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the
aftermath of war."
"Despite the tragic (and costly) exception of slavery, our ancestors believed that (1) the essence of economic liberty is the right to do whatever a person wants with his own money, including to refuse to donate it to charity; (2) charity is not a legitimate function of government; (3) it is morally wrong to force anyone, either through private coercion or government coercion, to donate his money; (4) it is morally wrong to take money, either through private or government coercion, from a person to whom it belongs in order to give it to someone to whom it does not belong; and (5) charity means nothing in terms of compassion and religion when it is accomplished through the coercive apparatus of the state. Rather than engaging in the perennial discussions over IRS abuses, tax-code simplification, deductions and tax shelters, Americans would be better served reflecting on their heritage of liberty, the meaning of freedom and the moral framework for a free society."
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"The 1998 missile strike on the Sudan was an unannounced, unprovoked attack that destroyed that Third World nation's only medicine factory. Yet it provoked no opposition outcry on the left. The Clinton air strike violated every principle of the current liberal critique of Bush foreign policy." David Horowitz, (makes my libertarian point for me. RAB) |
David
Horowitz, neocon
"You cannot cripple an opponent by outwitting him in a
political debate. You can only do it by following Lenin's injunction: 'In political
conflicts, the goal is not to refute your opponent's argument, but to
wipe him from the face of the earth.' "
David Horowitz, 'The Art of Political War and Other
Radical Pursuits' 2000
"The difference between the Paleo-cranks and the
Commie-cranks is that the Communists are in love with an America in the
future that's designed in their image and the Paleos are in love with
the America of the 18th Century. That's the difference, but they share
a common attitude towards America as it exists today."
David Horowitz
"Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel
will eventually happen to America itself."
David Horowitz
"Politics is about
winning. If you don't win, you
don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way
to win, or sit the battle out."
David Horowitz, (use Lenin's tactics if you must, see above)
"[D]uring World War II, the Japanese...gave their psychological warfare script to their
famous broadcaster 'Tokyo Rose' and every day she would broadcast this same message
packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American GI's
morale. What was that demoralizing message? It had three main points: 1. Your President is
lying to you. 2. This war is illegal. 3. You cannot win the war."
David Horowitz
I guess Mr. Horowitz believes he has made a point here. RAB
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world is not.
A. E. Housman
"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies."
Ed Howe
"It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom."
William Dean Howells
"Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."
Kin Hubbard
"The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them."
Kin Hubbard
"I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than
I can say for prosperity."
Kin Hubbard
"I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake."
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."
Charles Evans Hughes, (1862-1948, American jurist, politician)
"War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals."
Charles Evans Hughes
"Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we
might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the
essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types
of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'"
Justice Charles Evans Hughes
Source: U. S. Supreme Court, Forbes Magazine, 1 November 1957
"We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism."
Robert Hughes, on political correctness,
1993
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"Peace is the
virtue of civilization. War is its crime." "The learned man knows that he is ignorant." |
"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act.
The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
"Men hate those to whom they have to lie.""I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul."
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
"The government is best which makes itself unnecessary."
Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767 - 1835) German statesman, philologist
"It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is."
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny;
flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to
the temporal interest of the clergy."
David Hume
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
Hubert H. ########
"Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism."
Hubert Humphrey
"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time.
As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."
Trinidad Hunt
"One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfils our worst wishes. In the person
of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more,
with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
Aldous Huxley
"What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be
trained to murder one another in cold blood."
"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of
political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have
to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
Brave New World
"The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means
employed determine the nature of the ends produced."
Ends and Means, 1937
"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual
human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions
of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
of people are human."
"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your
own self."
"On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of
getting clean."
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
"A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is
a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have
muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention."
"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people
love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a
kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have
their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be
distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced
by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."
Tavistock Group, California Medical School, 1961
"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the
present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in
which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a
population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To
make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries
of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers."
Source: Forward to 'Brave New World', 1932
