Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-10-15 Oct 15, 2010The more laws the more offenders.~ Dr. Thomas FullerIt is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.~ Eric HofferThe meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism.~ Karl Marx Oct 14, 2010Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.~ Douglas AdamsI begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.~ Abigail AdamsThe one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.~ Harper Lee Oct 13, 2010One evening, when I was yet in my nurse’s arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said 'Let him touch it.' So I touched it -- and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.~ John RuskinThose who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.~ ProverbA nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 12, 2010I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.~ Lord ActonThe highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayPower never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power.~ Malcolm X Oct 11, 2010It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.~ David BrinIt is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ AeschylusCompelling a man by law to pay his money to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against. The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print