Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-06-20 Jun 20, 2018The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinions.~ EpictetusWe are more especially called upon to maintain the principles of free discussion in case of unpopular sentiments or persons, as in no other case will any effort to maintain them be needed.~ Edward BeecherThere is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favour, upon the spirit of party: but, in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.~ George Washington Jun 19, 2018Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.~ Adam SmithYou know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.~ Alan DershowitzNo matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.~ Dave Barry Jun 18, 2018Conscience warns us before it reproaches us.~ Comtesse DianeMen are not punished for their sins, but by them.~ Elbert HubbardOur repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Jun 15, 2018Regulation -- which is based on force and fear -- undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.~ Alan GreenspanIntegrity has no need of rules.~ Albert CamusWhere are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?~ Alexis de Tocqueville Jun 14, 2018Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonYou can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time.~ Abraham LincolnBe not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels but they live like men.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print