Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-12-25 Dec 25, 2017No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.~ AesopThose who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.~ Elizabeth HarrisonHonesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless.~ Everett Piper Dec 22, 2017Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.~ Girolamo SavonarolaBut I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.~ Jesus of NazarethTo love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.~ John Locke 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print