Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-02-06 Feb 5, 2010Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.~ John LockeAn honest answer is the sign of true friendship.~ Proverb'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.~ Theodore Roosevelt Feb 4, 2010Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.~ Michael Kinsley[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.~ Polybius...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.~ Robert E. Lee Feb 3, 2010The first casualty when war comes is truth.~ Hiram W. JohnsonThere are two histories : official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.~ Honoré de BalzacThe history of war is the history of powerful individuals willing to sacrifice thousands upon thousands of other people’s lives for personal gains.~ Michael Rivero Feb 2, 2010Integrity is the core of our character.~ L. Lionel KendrickThe newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred.~ C. P. ScottNothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Feb 1, 2010A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.~ Abba EbanThe true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonAt the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.~ E. H. Chapin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print