Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-02-24 Feb 24, 2021Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of their authority; they have none other.~ Michel de MontaigneWe have set before ourselves the task of inoculating our youth … at a very early age. … This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.~ Adolf HitlerGovernment will not fail to employ education to strengthen its hands and perpetuate its institutions.~ William Godwin Feb 23, 2021Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.~ Abraham LincolnOne stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.~ Sir Roger L'EstrangeCharacter is much easier kept than recovered.~ Thomas Paine Feb 22, 2021Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.~ Benjamin FranklinIt is precisely for the protection of the minority that constitutional limitations exist. Majorities need no such protection. They can take care of themselves.~ Illinois Supreme CourtThe strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. It forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.~ Milton Friedman Feb 19, 2021The process of completely freeing oneself emotionally from being a Communist is a thing no outsider can understand. The group thinking and group planning and the group life of the Party had been a part of me for so long that it was desperately difficult for me to be a person again. ... But I had begun the process of “unbecoming” a Communist. It was a long and painful process, much like that of a polio victim who has to learn to walk all over again. I had to learn to think. I had to learn to love. I had to drain the hate and frenzy from my system. I had to dislodge the self and the pride that had made me arrogant, made me feel that I knew all the answers. I had to learn that I knew nothing. There were many stumbling blocks in this process.~ Dr. Bella DoddThere had been many things I had not really understood. I had regarded the Communist Party as a poor man’s party, and thought the presence of certain men of wealth within it accidental. I now saw this was no accident. I regarded the Party as a monolithic organization with the leadership in the National Committee and the National Board. Now I saw this was only a facade placed there by the movement to create the illusion of the poor man’s party; it was in reality a device to control the “common man” they so raucously championed.~ Dr. Bella Dodd Feb 18, 2021Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.~ EpictetusFreedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelSpiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.~ Ludwig von Mises Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print