Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-08-03 Aug 3, 2020We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable, that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.~ Thomas JeffersonGovernment is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.~ Alexander HamiltonThe Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing.~ Herbert Spencer Jul 31, 2020There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thought under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.~ Michel de MontaigneTake care that no one hates you justly.~ Publilius SyrusMen are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather for how their acts are defined. This is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in behaving themselves.~ Thomas Szasz Jul 30, 2020If you think there is freedom of the press in the United States, I tell you there is no freedom of the press... They come out with the cheap shot. The press should be ashamed of itself. They should come to both sides of the issue and hear both sides and let the American people make up their minds.~ Bill MoyersIt is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.~ Noel CowardNothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Jul 29, 2020The trouble with most folks isn't so much their ignorance, as knowing so many things that ain't so.~ Josh BillingsIt is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonI believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.~ H. L. Mencken Jul 28, 2020A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.~ Abba EbanIn towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members. In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries.~ Alexis de TocquevilleGoverning a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.~ Lao-Tzu Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print