Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-06-05 Jun 5, 2018Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.~ John DrydenEvery wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.~ Pablo Casals[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 4, 2018We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.~ AristotleThere is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonWe judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Jun 1, 2018The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.~ Clarence S. DarrowAs long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.~ Dick CavettNo more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin May 31, 2018How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well.~ Barry GoldwaterMen, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.~ Charles Mackay May 30, 2018A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.~ Abraham LincolnI have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.~ Albert Einstein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print