Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-05-20 May 20, 2014It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions make it impossible to earn a living.~ Bertrand RussellWhen is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees.~ Jessica MitfordNone can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton May 19, 2014Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart MillThe winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.~ Edward GibbonWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow May 16, 2014It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.~ Friedrich August von HayekA free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.~ Henry Steele CommagerTo believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.~ Oscar Wilde May 15, 2014[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.~ Milton FriedmanWere we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.~ Thomas JeffersonYou can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.~ W. Somerset Maugham May 14, 2014Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving.~ Auntie MameWithin seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. LucasThe great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.~ James Larkin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print