Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-03-26 Mar 26, 2013We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.... If the foundation is firm, the superstructure will stand.~ Calvin CoolidgeSo when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.~ Francis BaconDemocracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.~ Irving Kristol Mar 25, 2013Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.~ Abraham LincolnCountries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.~ Charles de MontesquieuThat is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.~ Quintus Ennius Mar 22, 2013Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.~ Mae WestThe trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.~ Norman Vincent Peale Mar 21, 2013Social positivism only accepts duties, for all and towards all. Its constant social viewpoint cannot include any notion of rights, for such notion always rests on individuality. We are born under a load of obligations of every kind, to our predecessors, to our successors, to our contemporaries. These obligations then increase or accumulate, for it is some time before we can return any service. ... Any human right is therefore as absurd as immoral. Since there are no divine rights anymore, this concept must therefore disappear completely as related only to the preliminary regime and totally inconsistent with the final state where there are only duties based on functions.~ Auguste Comte... we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.~ Adolf HitlerWhat we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.~ Rudolph W. Giuliani Mar 20, 2013For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends.~ AristotleThere is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.~ Michel de MontaigneIf everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.~ Molière Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print