Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-10-14 Oct 14, 2021The cultivation -- even celebration -- of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.~ George WillWe are now considering legislation based on statistics that include name-calling at public rallies as crimes. Are we going on to the school yards of this country and when two kids get angry with each other and call each other names -- what are we going to do, cart them over to the reformatory or add them to the list of 'hate crimes' perpetrators? This is ridiculous.~ Jesse HelmsIt is a maxim among lawyers that whatever hath been done before may be done again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions, and the judges never fail of directing them accordingly.~ Jonathan Swift Oct 13, 2021Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.~ Abraham LincolnMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.~ Thomas CarlyleIt is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.~ William Kingdon Clifford Oct 12, 2021More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul.~ William BlakeNo, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William CowperThe greatest discovery of any generation is that a living soul can alter his life by altering his attitude.~ William James 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print