Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-05-29 May 29, 2014If you want to make enemies, try to change something.~ Woodrow WilsonThe whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society.~ H. L. MenckenEducation consists mainly of what we have unlearned.~ Mark Twain May 28, 2014At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is “not done”… Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.~ George OrwellNo human has yet grasped 1% of what can be known about spiritual realities ... I grew up Presbyterian. Presbyterians thought the Methodists were wrong. Catholics thought all Protestants were wrong. The Jews thought the Christians were wrong. So, what I'm financing is humility. I want people to realize that you shouldn't think you know it all.~ John TempletonMany politicians... are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool... who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay May 27, 2014The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.~ Johann von SchillerBecause just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.~ Niccolo MachiavelliAll men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.~ Voltaire May 26, 2014Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money --- only for wanting to keep your own money.~ Joseph SobranNothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.~ Milton FriedmanWhen you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.~ Ronald Reagan May 23, 2014There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.~ Hubert H. HumphreyI often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.~ Judge Learned HandGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.~ Plato Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print