Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-02-08 Feb 8, 2013Thus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...~ Benjamin Constant Feb 7, 2013The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.~ Marcus Aurelius AntoninusWar is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.~ Thomas JeffersonWar is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Feb 6, 2013Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.~ Henry David ThoreauAn efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.~ James MadisonBy the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.~ Jonathan Swift Feb 5, 2013And, lastly, to vindicate these rights, when actually violated and attacked, the subjects of England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self preservation and defense.~ Sir William BlackstoneEvery citizen has a right to keep and bear arms; and this right shall never be questioned.~ Maine ConstitutionTo prohibit a citizen from wearing or carrying a war arm ... is an unwarranted restriction upon the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of constitutional privilege.~ Wilson v. State Feb 4, 2013Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.~ Henri Frederic AmielI love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.~ James A. GarfieldWho shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print