Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-12-24 Dec 24, 2019It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.~ Mark TwainWe even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society … would already enjoy.~ Ronald ReaganFreedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected – these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us.~ Thomas Jefferson Dec 23, 2019Goodness is the only investment that never fails.~ Henry David ThoreauRespondents argue, in effect, that legislative prayer may be addressed only to a generic God. The law and the Court could not draw this line for each specific prayer or seek to require ministers to set aside their nuanced and deeply personal beliefs for vague and artificial ones. There is doubt, in any event, that consensus might be reached as to what qualifies as generic or nonsectarian.~ Justice Anthony KennedyWe must be a people who dare, dare to take responsibility for our hatred and fears and ask God to heal us from within. And we must be a people of prayer, a people who pray as if the strength of our nation depended on it, because it does.~ J. C. Watts, Jr. Dec 20, 2019Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.~ Oscar WildeThere is no inherent misdirection in holding unorthodox views. Indeed, the autonomous individual, free from compulsive conformance and unquestioned assumptions, is likely to be unorthodox... They stimulate the climate of controversy without which political democracy becomes an empty formalism.~ Snell PutneyI may die a beggar, but with the Grace of God, I will not die a slave. I will not be filed, stamped, briefed, debriefed, or numbered... My life is my own.~ The Prisoner Dec 19, 2019Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue...~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...~ Benjamin ConstantIf the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.~ Henry David Thoreau Dec 18, 2019If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaYou must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.~ Robert E. LeeSit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print