Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-06-01 Jun 1, 2010Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.~ Thomas PaineThe republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.~ Elmer DavisIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.~ General George S. Patton, Jr. May 31, 2010Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.~ Sydney J. HarrisHorse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.~ W. C. FieldsMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.~ Adlai E. Stevenson II May 28, 2010No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity, and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society.~ Daniel WebsterIn matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiThe problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.~ Robert F. Kennedy May 27, 2010Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.~ John AdamsOur republic and its press will rise and fall together.~ Joseph PulitzerTruth never damages a cause that is just.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi May 26, 2010Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.~ Mark TwainWe are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide for it.~ Patrick HenryYour silence gives consent.~ Plato Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print