Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-10-09 Oct 9, 2019I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.~ Calvin CoolidgeIt is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.~ Dorothy ThompsonThe means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.~ John Viscount Morley Oct 8, 2019If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.~ Abraham LincolnI do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled.~ C. S. Lewis Oct 7, 2019No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.~ James MadisonNothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.~ Ludwig WittgensteinTruth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.~ Maimonides Oct 4, 2019The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press: - Concentrated Power of the Big Press. - Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly. - Governmental control of the press. - Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures. - Big Business mentality. - Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them from criticizing each other. - Social blindness.~ Max LernerIt is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...~ Abraham LincolnTo your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 3, 2019Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. WedgwoodWhen any court violates the clean and unambiguous language of the constitution, a fraud is perpetrated and no one is bound to obey it.~ State v. SuttonCongress may not abdicate or transfer to others its legitimate functions.~ U.S. Supreme Court Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print