Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-09-21 Sep 21, 2016It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~ Noel CowardBad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.~ Patrick HenryNo man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.~ Theodore Roosevelt Sep 20, 2016The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.~ George Washington[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.~ PolybiusO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter Scott Sep 19, 2016There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another… All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.~ Emma GoldmanIs there a greater tragedy imaginable than that, in our endeavour consciously to shape our future in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for?~ Friedrich August von HayekIt is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly-prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.~ James Fenimore Cooper Sep 16, 2016We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.~ Charles KingsleyAll change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.~ Ellen Glasgow Sep 15, 2016I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.~ Henry Brooks Adams[N]o good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'~ John AdamsAlways stand on principle, even if you stand alone.~ John Quincy Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print