Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-09-10 Sep 10, 2009There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.~ Clarence S. DarrowI leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead.~ Davy CrockettI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.~ Henry David Thoreau Sep 9, 2009Mr. Madison has introduced his long expected amendments... The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.~ Fisher AmesAgainst nature and within nature there is no freedom.~ Ludwig Von MisesLiberty consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil Sep 8, 2009Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity, impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country.~ Alexander HamiltonLaws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.~ Baruch SpinozaWe must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists.~ Communist Party Education Workers Congress Sep 7, 2009Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?~ John AdamsTruth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.~ MaimonidesWhat is not in nature can never be true.~ Voltaire Sep 4, 2009Slavery, or an absolute and unlimited power in the master over the life and fortune of the slave, is unauthorized by the common law. Indeed, it is repugnant to the principles of natural law, that such a state should subsist in any social system. The reasons which we sometimes see assigned for the origin and the continuance of slavery appear, when examined to the bottom, to be built upon a false foundation. In the enjoyment of their persons and of their property, the common law protects all.~ James WilsonNo people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.~ Samuel Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print