Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-09-08 Sep 8, 2014The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.~ Saint Thomas AquinasTo learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.~ Voltaire[I]t’s an unfortunate reality in many of the journalistic environments we exist today. We can’t criticize certain people, or dig into certain stories, or follow our noses on the trail of corruption if it means upsetting our publishers, sponsors, and donors.~ Zaid Jilani Sep 5, 2014Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.~ HoraceRules are written for those who lack the ability to truly reason. But for those who can, rules become nothing more than guidelines, and live their lives governed not by rules but by reason.~ James McGuiganA wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.~ Jean de la Bruyere Sep 4, 2014Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.~ Patricia SampsonNo man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.~ William Lloyd GarrisonIt is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.~ William Ralph Inge Sep 3, 2014May [the Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man.~ Thomas JeffersonYou make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr.Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.~ Benjamin Franklin Sep 2, 2014In the ancient world individuals have sold themselves as slaves, in order to eat. So in society. Here is a witch-doctor who can save us from the sorcerers -- a war-lord who can save us from the barbarians -- a Church that can save us from Hell. Give them what they ask, give ourselves to them bound and blindfold, if only they will! Perhaps the terrible bargain will be made again. We cannot blame men for making it. We can hardly wish them not to. Yet we can hardly bear that they should.~ C. S. LewisBeware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.~ DemosthenesShame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!~ Samuel Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print