Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-10-11 Oct 11, 2021It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us.~ TertullianReligious liberty is the chief cornerstone of the American system of government, and provisions for its security are embedded in the written charter and interwoven in the moral fabric of its laws. Anything that tends to invade a right so essential and sacred must be carefully guarded against, and I am satisfied that my countrymen, ever mindful of the suffering and sacrifices necessary to obtain it, will never consent to its impairment for any reason or under any pretext whatsoever.~ Thomas F. BayardI have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 8, 2021Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.~ Jean-Paul SartreThere is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.~ Richard BachTruth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.~ William Cullen Bryant Oct 7, 2021To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.~ Lao-TzuNothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.~ Ludwig WittgensteinAs long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.~ Sir Arthur Keith Oct 6, 2021Here I close my opinion. I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity that go down to the very foundations of the government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end? The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness.~ Justice Stephen J. FieldThe whole principle is wrong. It’s like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.~ Robert A. HeinleinCrimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime. As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort -- as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Oct 5, 2021Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.~ Lord ActonThe Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.~ John AdamsTruth never damages a cause that is just.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print