Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-01-28 Jan 27, 2023Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.~ A. J. P. TaylorWherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at.~ George SavileGive a good man great powers and crooks grab his job.~ Rick Gaber Jan 26, 2023The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.~ Edward R. MurrowA heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.~ Gotthold Ephraim LessingThe art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.~ H. L. Mencken Jan 25, 2023The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.~ Mohammed AliThe holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills individual moral duty.~ Patrick CoxThe terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.~ Remy De Gourmont Jan 24, 2023The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.~ Justice Robert H. JacksonThe simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.~ ProverbsIt is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.~ Sally Kempton Jan 23, 2023Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.~ Jean-Paul SartreLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it.~ Judge Learned HandIf ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.~ Samuel Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print