Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-10-15 Oct 15, 2019Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?~ Henry David ThoreauMan's character is his fate.~ HeraclitusCan you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse. 7 have been arrested for fraud. 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses. 3 have been arrested for assault. 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit. 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges. 8 have been arrested for shoplifting. 21 are current defendants in law suits. 84 were stopped for drunk driving in 1998 alone. Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line.~ Jack Sharp Oct 14, 2019Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.~ Henry Wheeler ShawThe Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to "deny or disparage" other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people. ~ Justice Antonin Scalia Oct 11, 2019[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.~ PolybiusA man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.~ Sir Walter RaleighWhen the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict, when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened, when there are no consistent rules, neighboring rulers will take advantage of this.~ Sun Tzu Oct 10, 2019Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.~ Mark TwainIf everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.~ MolièreThe problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use -- of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.~ Robert F. Kennedy 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print