Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-11-24 Nov 23, 2018The experience that was had in ... the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth ... was found to breed much confusion and discontent; and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit.... For the young men that were most able and fit for labor and service objected that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children, without any recompense.... The strong man or the resourceful man had no more share of food, clothes, etc., than the weak man who was not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men, who were ranked and equalized in labor, food, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger ones, thought it some indignity and disrespect to them.~ William BradfordThere is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.~ Thomas JeffersonToward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of opinion.~ James Russell Lowell Nov 22, 2018Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.~ BuddhaWhen I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more.~ Henry FieldingI thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.~ Matthew Henry Nov 21, 2018The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.~ Charles de MontesquieuAll bad precedents began as justifiable measures.~ Gaius Julius CaesarNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.~ Hilaire Belloc Nov 20, 2018The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.~ AristotlePower corrupts. But it does more than that. Power attracts the corrupt, then corrupts them further.~ Don MatthewsThe first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.~ Georges Bernanos Nov 19, 2018Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.~ Edmund BurkeA lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.~ Mario PuzoNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.~ Theodore Roosevelt Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print