Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-08-22 Aug 21, 2020Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.~ H. L. MenckenWar is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.~ John Stuart MillDo all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.~ John Wesley Aug 20, 2020It is not because we have been free, but because we have a right to be free, that we ought to demand freedom. Justice and liberty have neither birth nor race, youth nor age.~ Sir James MacKintoshThere can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob HolyoakeIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.~ Immanuel Kant Aug 19, 2020It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.~ Andre GideThe life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.~ Frederick DouglassDare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.~ George Herbert Aug 18, 2020We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose this battle.~ Benjamin E. MaysFreedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.~ Edward EverettI am not free until I say so. And there's a good chance I am going to have to fight once I do. Ever since I declared my Independence, I have had to support and defend it.~ Eric Schaub Aug 17, 2020Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind.~ James WilsonThe things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiThe whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print