Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-08-24 Aug 22, 2014Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard MitchellA nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin FranklinI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.~ Booker T. Washington Aug 21, 2014Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinAnd I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.~ James Russell LowellIncreasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.~ Jerome D. Frank Aug 20, 2014The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de MontesquieuProgress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.~ C. S. LewisWhen people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.~ Eric Hoffer Aug 19, 2014There is no way; we make the road by walking it.~ Antonio MachadoLaissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme. (Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)~ French SayingI was put in this world to change it.~ Kathe Kollwitz Aug 18, 2014At every hour of every day, I can tell you on which page of which book each school child in Italy is studying.~ Benito Mussolini Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print