“Every step we take toward making the state the caretaker of our lives, by that much we move toward making the State our master.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Every generation a new crop of fools comes on. They think they can beat the orderly universe. They conceive themselves to be more clever than the eternal laws. They snatch goods from nature’s store and run. . . . And one by one they all come back to nature’s counter and pay—pay in tears, in agony, in despair; pay as fools before them have paid. . . . Nature keeps books pitilessly. Your credit with her is good, but she collects; there is no land you can flee to to escape her bailiffs. . . . She never forgets; she sees to it that you pay her every cent, with interest. ~ Dr. Frank Crane
“We are too inclined to think of law as something merely restrictive—something hemming us in. We sometimes think of law as the opposite of liberty. But this is a false conception. . . God does not contradict Himself. He did not create man and then, as an afterthought impose upon him a set of arbitrary, irritating, restrictive rules. He made man free—and then gave him commandments to keep him free. . . . We cannot break the Ten Commandments. We can only break ourselves against them—or else, by keeping them, rise to a fullness of freedom under God. God means us to be free. With divine daring, He gave us the power of choice.~Cecil B. DeMille (used before on zw)
The above three quotes are from the ‘Richard Evans Quote Book’, Publisher’s Press, 1971 p.84
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