Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-01-30 Jan 30, 2023It is not laissez-faire that has failed. That would be an ill day for men. What has failed is the courage to see what is true and speak it to the people, to point to the true remedies.~ Auberon HerbertThe trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.~ Bertrand RussellThe first casualty when war comes is truth.~ Hiram W. Johnson 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print