Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-03-06 Mar 6, 2018Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonCorrectitude implies nowadays a formal or fastidious use of words; and what is wanted is not so much the correct as the living use of words. It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonA single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.~ Jacques Maritain Mar 5, 2018We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.~ John Marshall Harlan IIOften, the surest way to convey information is to tell the strict truth.~ Mark TwainPolitics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.~ Tom Robbins Mar 2, 2018England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.~ Lydia M. ChildI have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.~ Thomas JeffersonSince when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?~ William O. Douglas Mar 1, 2018It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.~ H. L. MenckenIn the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections.~ John AdamsLet us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.~ John Ruskin Feb 28, 2018History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government.~ Bell v. HoodConstitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon.~ Boyd v. U.S.Freedom lies in being bold.~ Robert Frost Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print