Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives Sep 3, 2026I 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 that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.~ Edward Everett HaleI long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.~ Helen KellerDon't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.~ William Faulkner Sep 2, 2026The electors see their representative not only as a legislator for the state but also as the natural protector of local interests in the legislature; indeed, they almost seem to think that he has a power of attorney to represent each constituent, and they trust him to be as eager in their private interests as in those of the country.~ Alexis de Tocqueville... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.~ Anthony de JasayLiberty requires restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's power.~ William Kornhauser Sep 1, 2026What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.~ AristotleA free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.~ Cyril JamesCharity begins at home.~ Publius Terentius Afer Aug 31, 2026Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual … who … can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.~ Friedrich NietzscheThe most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man’s innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.~ Jean-Jacques RousseauOnce we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.~ Otis Chandler Previous week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print