Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-09-24 Sep 24, 2019He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.~ Thomas PaineWhere the words of a constitution are unambiguous and in their commonly received sense lead to a reasonable conclusion, it should be read according to the natural and most obvious import of the framers, without resorting to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of limiting or extending its operation.~ A State Ex Rel. Torryson v. GreyGun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people.~ J. Neil Schulman Sep 23, 2019There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.~ Charles KingsleyLet us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.~ John F. KennedyWhen complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton Sep 20, 2019The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.~ Norman Vincent PealeI never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.~ Thomas JeffersonYou can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.~ W. Somerset Maugham Sep 19, 2019A radical is one who speaks the truth.~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.~ Charles PeguyIf all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing mankind… If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.~ John Stuart Mill Sep 18, 2019I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe ... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. -- From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.~ Daniel WebsterThe people are the masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who would pervert it!~ Abraham LincolnNo man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.~ Theodore Roosevelt Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print