Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-06-03 Jun 3, 2015There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.~ Mary LyonThe great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right.~ MenciusIs life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!~ Patrick Henry 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print