Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [81-100] of 271 History quotesHistory QuotesHistory Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.~ Will Durant Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.~ Albert Einstein The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.~ Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert Einstein We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.~ Albert Einstein Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert Einstein Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.~ Albert Einstein Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.~ Albert Einstein History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.~ Dwight D. Eisenhower America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.~ Felix Frankfurter The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.~ Felix Frankfurter History will also give Occasion to expatiate on the Advantage of Civil Orders and Constitutions, how Men and their Properties are protected by joining in Societies and establishing Government; their Industry encouraged and rewarded, Arts invented, and Life made more comfortable: The Advantages of Liberty, Mischiefs of Licentiousness, Benefits arising from good Laws and a due Execution of Justice, &c. Thus may the first Principles of sound Politicks be fix'd in the Minds of Youth.~ Benjamin Franklin ... as all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...~ Benjamin Franklin When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.~ Benjamin Franklin [A]s all history informs us, there has been in every State & Kingdom a constant kind of warfare between the governing & governed: the one striving to obtain more for its support, and the other to pay less. And this has alone occasioned great convulsions, actual civil wars, ending either in dethroning of the Princes, or enslaving of the people. Generally indeed the ruling power carries its point, the revenues of princes constantly increasing, and we see that they are never satisfied, but always in want of more. The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharaoh, get first all the peoples money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants for ever ...~ Benjamin Franklin The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.~ Frederick the Great The truth is always the strongest argument.~ Frederick the Great I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.~ Frederick the Great Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print