Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-10-02 Oct 2, 2019[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.~ James MadisonFrom the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.~ Carl SchurzIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.~ W. Somerset Maugham 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print