Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-08-25 Aug 25, 2020In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.~ James MadisonNo one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.~ Rev. Edmund A. Opitz Aug 24, 2020I have no reason to suppose, that he, who would take away my liberty, would not, when he had me in his power, take away every thing else.~ John LockeTis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.~ John Locke 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print