Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-06-25 Jun 25, 2018Everything in the world is purchased by labor.~ David HumeLabor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.~ James Weldon JohnsonHe who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.~ Menander Jun 22, 2018Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.~ BuddhaMy grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.~ Indira GandhiDare to be honest and fear no labor.~ Robert Burns Jun 21, 2018We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.~ Frederick DouglassThe [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.~ Friedrich August von HayekLiberty, equality -- bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print