Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-10-01 Oct 1, 2019The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either - but right through every human heart.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynO, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!~ Sir Walter ScottIt is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.~ Thomas Paine Sep 30, 2019Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood.~ Justice HeathAt the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisCongress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees.~ Roger Allen Sep 27, 2019Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.~ C. S. LewisEvery State is known by the rights it maintains.~ Harold J. Laski...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.~ Robert E. Lee Sep 26, 2019You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.~ Garrison KeillorLaw never made men a whit more just.~ Henry David ThoreauIt is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.~ Theodore Roosevelt Sep 25, 2019To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn[A] deep-rooted culture of incompetence and corruption has made it virtually impossible for government to function fairly and efficiently. And because most government employees are shielded by layers of protection, they couldn't care less. Never before in the history of this nation has there been a greater divide between a self-serving federal leviathan and millions of Americans... 'Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,' Ronald Reagan reminded us during his inaugural address in 1981. Nothing's changed since then, with one exception: It's gotten far worse.~ Arnold AhlertNone can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.~ John Milton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print