Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-11-15 Nov 15, 2012Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.~ John KeatsWe grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Nov 14, 2012Lying is done with words and also with silence.~ Adrienne RichThe hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.~ Ambrose BierceIt is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government.~ Ayn Rand Nov 13, 2012Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.~ Corri AliusI never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.~ Thomas JeffersonHave no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.~ Victor Hugo Nov 12, 2012The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.~ Oscar WildeSin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not a sin - just stupid.)~ Robert A. Heinlein Nov 9, 2012Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.~ Isaac AsimovHonesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.~ Josh BillingsEvery wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.~ Pablo Casals Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print