Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-11-18 Nov 18, 2020Who profits by a sin has done the sin.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.~ Theodore RooseveltThe man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors~ Thomas Jefferson Nov 17, 2020There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.~ Booker T. WashingtonA people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ Justice William O. DouglasTo dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny.~ William Godwin Nov 16, 2020... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated.~ Justice Warren E. BurgerWhere law ends, tyranny begins.~ Margaret ThatcherThe United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew government power attracts demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts horseflies.~ Rick Gaber Nov 13, 2020No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisSince when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?~ Lillian HellmanSecrecy is the beginning of tyranny.~ Robert A. Heinlein Nov 12, 2020Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.~ Thomas JeffersonYield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.~ Virgil Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print