Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-12-21 Dec 21, 2017Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.~ Martin LutherBlessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.~ Jesus of NazarethPractical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.~ Thomas Paine Dec 20, 2017Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.~ James MadisonHow selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.~ Adam SmithI feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.~ Grover Cleveland Dec 19, 2017Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.~ Davy Crockett[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.~ William Branch Giles Dec 18, 2017In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.~ Rupertus MeldeniusWe are all doubtless bound to contribute a certain portion of our income to the support of charitable and other useful public institutions. But it is a part of our duty also to apply our contributions in the most effectual way we can to secure this object. The question then is whether this will not be better done by each of us appropriating our whole contribution to the institutions within our reach, under our own eye, and over which we can exercise some useful control? Or would it be better that each should divide the sum he can spare among all the institutions of his State or the United States? Reason and the interest of these institutions themselves, certainly decide in favor of the former practice.~ Thomas JeffersonWelfare rights are pseudo-rights: They rely on the force of law to take private property for the use of others without compensation and without consent. Public charity is forced charity; it is not a virtue but a vice.~ James A. Dorn Dec 15, 2017It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.~ Joyce CaryThe power of the Right is principle, and the principle of the Left is power. Understand this and you will understand the basis of modern politics.~ J.T. YoungThe village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught.~ Patrick J. Buchanan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print