Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2019-12-31 Dec 31, 2019The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.~ Alexander HamiltonThe laws in question can, therefore, only be justified by the theory of vindictive punishment, which holds that certain sins, though they may not injure anyone except the sinner, are so heinous as to make it our duty to inflict pain upon the delinquent. This point of view, under the influence of Benthamism, lost its hold during the nineteenth century. But in recent years, with the general decay of Liberalism, it has regained lost ground, and has begun to threaten a new tyranny as oppressive as any in the Middle Ages.~ Bertrand RussellI know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass Dec 30, 2019Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze We lift our heads, a race of other days.~ Charles SpragueLiberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.~ Madame Anne Sophie SwetchineEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to chose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.~ Viktor Frankl Dec 27, 2019Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.~ Margaret Mead Dec 26, 2019Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.~ Miguel de UnamunoDoubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.~ Paul TillichWhat we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.~ Plutarch Dec 25, 2019Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.~ II CorinthiansThe tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.~ Rev. Henry Ward BeecherThe cause of freedom is the cause of God.~ William Lisle Bowles Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print