Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-11-23 Nov 23, 2020A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president~ Benjamin CurtisIf liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals—not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall.~ Albert J. BeveridgeHuman nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?~ John Adams Nov 20, 2020We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty.~ Marvin CooleyHe that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel ButlerIf the legislature clearly misinterprets a Constitutional provision, the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right.~ Amos v. Mosley Nov 19, 2020The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!~ Mordechai AnielewiczHonor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.~ Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxOne of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.~ O. A. Battista 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print