Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 152 Death quotesDeath QuotesDeath Next 20 quotes The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.~ John Quincy Adams Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.~ Aeschylus Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.~ Aesop Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...~ John Peter Altgeld Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.~ Harry J. Anslinger Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death.~ Harry J. Anslinger You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother.~ Harry J. Anslinger The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.~ Saint Thomas Aquinas I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.~ Christiaan Barnard What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.~ Bruce Barton No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).~ Frederic Bastiat The punishment of death is the war of a nation against a citizen whose destruction it judges to be necessary or useful.~ Cesare Beccaria There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans...and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Given a short time with a psycho-politician you can alter forever the loyalty of a soldier in our hands or a statesman or a leader in his own country, or you can destroy his mind... (more)~ Lavrentii Pavlovich Beria As records of courts and justice are admissible, it can easily be proved that powerful and malevolent magicians once existed and were a scourge to mankind... Nothing in any existing court was ever more thoroughly proved than the charges of witchcraft and sorcery for which so many suffered death. If there were no witches, human testimony and human reason are alike destitute of value.~ Ambrose Bierce I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.~ Reuben Blades When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.~ George Boas I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparison. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of people would die for Him.~ Napoleon Bonaparte [A] society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.~ Robert Bork Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.~ Charles Bradlaugh Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print