Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [381-400] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.~ Abraham Lincoln As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham Lincoln Self-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself...~ John Locke The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.~ John Locke Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.~ John Locke Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.~ John Locke [E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.~ John Locke New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.~ John Locke Fatigue makes cowards of us all.~ Vince Lombardi We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.~ James Russell Lowell A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.~ James Russell Lowell There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless about them.~ Clare Boothe Luce Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.~ Martin Luther And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay There is no way; we make the road by walking it.~ Antonio Machado For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.~ Niccolo Machiavelli The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.~ Niccolo Machiavelli Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.~ Charles Mackay Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print