Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-12-17 Dec 17, 2019A man’s liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.~ Herbert SpencerNo one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.~ H. L. MenckenDo not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.~ James Madison Dec 16, 2019A man does what he must -- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers -- and this is the basis of all human morality.~ John F. KennedyIt is a great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it's good dispositions.~ Thomas JeffersonA lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.~ Charles Edward Montague Dec 13, 2019It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.~ Frances Moore LappéI believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.~ Mary Wortley Montagu Dec 12, 2019I am only one. But still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do.~ Edward Everett HaleOne does evil enough when one does nothing good.~ German ProverbYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.~ James D. Miles Dec 11, 2019A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerThere can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob HolyoakeTo thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.~ William Shakespeare Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print