Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-12-16 Dec 16, 2020The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.~ Georges BernanosGovernment is like fire. If it is kept within bounds and under the control of the people, it contributes to the welfare of all. But if it gets out of place, if it gets too big and out of control, it destroys the happiness and even the lives of the people.~ Harold E. StassenSomehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause -- nor any charter of immunities and rights.~ Henry David Thoreau Dec 15, 2020Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisTrue liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.~ Katherine MansfieldThe guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.~ Lewis F. Powell Dec 14, 2020No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.~ George MasonIf you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.~ Bishop Desmond TutuWe will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dec 11, 2020Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers.~ Jeffrey R. SnyderYou can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.~ John LeoWhere there is no law there is no freedom.~ John Locke Dec 10, 2020It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.~ Felix FrankfurterThe history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.~ Felix FrankfurterThe requirement of “due process” is not a fairweather or timid assurance. It must be respected in periods of calm and in times of trouble; it protects aliens as well as citizens.~ Felix Frankfurter Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print