Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-12-13 Dec 13, 2022The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government. Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism, but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false; for the government, within the Constitution, has all the powers granted to it, which are necessary to preserve its existence; as has been happily proved by the result of the great effort to throw off its just authority.~ Justice David DavisAbove all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed.~ C. Van WoodwardKnowledge and human power are synonymous.~ Sir Francis Bacon Dec 12, 2022Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.~ William O. DouglasTo freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]~ Marcus Tullius CiceroOur ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will affect us.~ Steven R. Covey Dec 9, 2022The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as, from 1933 onward, “political criminality” was given a much broader definition than ever before and most forms of dissent and criticism were gradually criminalized. The result was that more “laws” or lawlike measures were put on the books than ever.~ Shelia FitzpatrickThus arbitrary power will have divided men of superior intelligence into two groups: the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt...~ Benjamin ConstantBy rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.~ James Madison Dec 8, 2022Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonNeither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.~ Jefferson DavisEach progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.~ Maurice Maeterlinck Dec 7, 2022It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the constitution with which they are not in sympathy.~ Alfred E. SmithThe idea of creating systems designed to threaten, coerce, and kill, and to imbue such agencies with principled legitimacy, and not expect them to lead to wars, genocides, and other tyrannical practices, expresses an innocence we can no longer afford to indulge.~ Butler D. ShafferForcing people to be more 'unselfish' creates animosity instead of good will. Trying to control selfish others is a cure worse than the disease. ... In trying to control others, we find ourselves controlled. We point fingers at the dictators, the Communists, the politicians, and the international cartels. We are blithely unaware that our desire to control selfish others creates and sustains them. Like a stone thrown in a quiet pond, our desire to control our neighbors ripples outward, affecting the political course of our community, state, nation, and world. Yet we know not what we do. We attempt to bend our neighbors to our will, sincere in our belief that we are benevolently protecting the world from their folly and short-sightedness. We seek control to create peace and prosperity, not realizing that this is the very means by which war and poverty are propagated. In fighting for our dream without awareness, we become the instruments of its destruction. If we could only see the pattern!~ Dr. Mary J. Ruwart Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print