Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-06-28 Jun 28, 2010The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.~ Frederick DouglassLiberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil.~ John AdamsLiberty is not a cruise ship full of pampered passengers. Liberty is a man-of-war, and we are all crew.~ Kenneth W. Royce Jun 25, 2010Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinions, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.~ Alexander HamiltonHope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.~ Francis BaconExperience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.~ James Madison Jun 24, 2010Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.~ George WashingtonThe greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.~ Herbert SpencerMost new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.~ Isidor Issac Rabi Jun 23, 2010Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct.~ Alexander HamiltonAmerica is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.~ Alistair CookeLiberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.~ Alistair Cooke Jun 22, 2010We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.~ Albert EinsteinAlmost everyone seems concerned with the need to relax tension. However, relaxation of tension, which everyone thinks is good, is not easily distinguished from relaxing one's guard, which almost everyone thinks is bad. Relaxation, like Miltown, is not an end in itself. Not all danger comes from tension. The reverse relation, to be tense where there is danger, is only rational.~ Albert WohlstetterThe loss of candor is grievous, and in my opinion it may yet prove to be mortal, because if we cannot discuss our problems in plain speech that describes reality, it is unlikely that we will be able to solve them.~ Alexander Haig Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print