Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-06-02 Jun 2, 2015We all know our duty better than we discharge it.~ John RandolphThe power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being only to make laws, and not to make legislators, the legislative can have no power to transfer their authority of making laws, and place it in other hands.~ John LockeAnother flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Jun 1, 2015Force is the weapon of the weak.~ Ammon HennacyThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund BurkeNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.~ Malcolm X May 29, 2015My father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.~ J. C. Watts, Jr.Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.~ Lydia M. ChildDiscipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.~ Maria Montessori May 28, 2015We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.~ Benjamin E. MaysThe tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants.~ Bertrand Barere de VieuzacGuard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.~ Patrick Henry May 27, 2015He who would be free must strike the first blow.~ Frederick DouglassWhen individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelYou must believe in free will; there is no choice.~ Isaac Bashevis Singer Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print