Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-10-06 Oct 6, 2014All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth. ~ Robert G. IngersollWe welcome almost any break in the monotony of things, a man has only to murder a series of wives in a new way to become known to millions of people who have never heard of Homer.~ Robert Wilson LyndIf you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 3, 2014A people who mean to continue free must be prepared to meet danger in person; not rely upon the fallacious protection of mercenary armies.~ Edmund RandolphAn unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.~ Jeff CooperTo my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic.~ Ted Nugent Oct 2, 2014Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.~ Irish ProverbCircumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.~ James AllenThe highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.~ John Ruskin Oct 1, 2014It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.~ Calvin CoolidgeHistory, in general, only informs us what bad government is.~ Thomas JeffersonFreedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William Cowper Sep 30, 2014Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.~ Alexander HamiltonThe ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed...~ Benjamin FranklinI own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic -- it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out.~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print