Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-01-04 Jan 4, 2012We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.~ Thomas CooperWith devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.~ William Shakespeare Jan 3, 2012They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.~ Benjamin FranklinYou can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?~ Khalil GibranNatural liberty is the right of common upon a waste; civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure.~ William Paley Jan 2, 2012If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.~ Algernon SidneyLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals. [Lat., Liberatem natura etiam mutis animalibus datam.]~ Cornelius TacitusLiberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.~ Henry Wheeler Shaw Dec 30, 2011The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.~ Albert EinsteinAs to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.~ Benjamin FranklinOnly reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.~ Clive Bell Dec 29, 2011A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious.~ AristotleI don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits children to be destroyed.~ Daniel BerriganCommunism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.~ James A. C. Brown Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print