Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-07-30 Jul 29, 2016Debate, it seems to me, is one of the most useful of human inventions. It is the mother and father of all free inquiry and honest thought. It tests ideas, detects errors and promotes clear thinking. A man cannot stand up before it without exposing his whole intellectual stock of goods.~ H. L. MenckenWhenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.~ Mark TwainThe elegance of honesty needs no adornment.~ Merry Browne Jul 28, 2016What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.~ Joel MillerI want gay married people to be able to protect their marijuana plants with guns.~ Tim MoenPrejudice rarely survives experience.~ Eve Zibart Jul 27, 2016Fascism, communism and national socialism all share in common the explicit premise that the individual must subordinate himself to society's needs, or as Hitler would phrase it: 'Society's needs come before the individual needs.' ~ A. E. Samaan Jul 26, 2016Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.~ Alan BarthIt is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.~ Ayn RandThere are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Jul 25, 2016Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.~ Ambrose BierceIt is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.~ Thomas WolfeWhen all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter Lippmann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print