Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-08-18 Aug 18, 2021The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes~ Justice Felix FrankfurterOnly the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.~ Marshall McLuhanIn the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give the facts to their readers.~ Nelson Antrim Crawford Aug 17, 2021Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.~ John Jay ChapmanYou can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.~ Clarence S. DarrowThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke Aug 16, 2021Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.~ Saint Thomas AquinasFascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power.~ Benito MussoliniDid you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?~ Lord Chancellor Thurlow Aug 13, 2021Righteousness is easy in retrospect.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.~ Thomas SowellWhereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.~ Walter Lippmann Aug 12, 2021Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.~ Alan BarthCensors are infused with the sentiment of moral indignation – a dangerous and misleading sentiment because, by blinding those who voice it to the real reasons for their indignation, it makes them puppets whose fears can be manipulated for ends and purposes they do not foresee or intend.~ Carey McWilliamsWhat ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS.~ Ed Biersmith Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print