Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-01-09 Jan 9, 2018He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.~ George BerkeleyThe liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.~ George Bernard ShawThe purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation.~ William Shakespeare Jan 8, 2018Righteousness is easy in retrospect.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.The power of morality is the greatest of all intellectual powers -– and mankind’s tragedy lies in the fact that the vicious moral code men have accepted destroys them by means of the best within them.~ Ayn RandHow is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.~ Barry Lopez Jan 5, 2018Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.~ Alexander HamiltonForce without wisdom falls of its own weight.~ HoraceEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.~ Thomas Jefferson Jan 4, 2018We Americans have no commission from God to police the world~ Benjamin Harrison[S]ince the substitution of an industrial for the agricultural order of society and the conquest of the industrial by the financial, the government of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semioccult power which, automatically, rather than calculatedly, pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron [of World War I].~ Major General J.F.C. FullerPower is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.~ Nadine Gordimer Jan 3, 2018I Said to my Wife, I have accepted a Seat in the House of Representatives and thereby have consented to my own Ruin to your Ruin and the Ruin of our Children. I give you this Warning that you may prepare your Mind for your Fate.~ John AdamsThe general [federal] government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.~ Thomas JeffersonAll over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... ‘We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.’ So they begin to ask: ‘What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.’~ Woodrow Wilson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print