Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-11-25 Nov 25, 2020Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaOnce we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.~ Otis ChandlerFor as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never in any wise consent submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory we fight, nor riches, or for honour, but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life.~ The Declaration of Arbroath 1320 Nov 24, 2020Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.~ John Quincy AdamsEvery wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.~ Pablo CasalsYou will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print