Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-04-17 Apr 17, 2023Let Mr. Madison tell me when did liberty ever exist when the sword and the purse were given up from the people? Unless a miracle shall interpose, no nation ever did, nor ever can retain its liberty after the loss of the sword and the purse.~ Patrick HenryThere is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.~ Robert A. HeinleinThe root of the evil... lay not in corruption but in the system which bred it, the alliance between industrialists and politicians which produced benefits in the form of tariffs, public lands, and federal subsidies.~ Samuel P. Hays Apr 14, 2023Prejudice rarely survives experience.~ Eve ZibartWho is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?~ Maurice FreehillThe real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, -- but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Apr 13, 2023Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.~ Jerome D. FrankThe least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.~ AristotleThere is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Apr 12, 2023Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.~ Graham GreeneFor every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.~ H. L. MenckenWhere the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.~ Irish Proverb Apr 11, 2023Petty laws breed great crimes.~ OuidaAvoid occasions of expense ... and avoid likewise the accumulation of debt not only by shunning occasions of expense but by vigorous exertions to discharge the debts, not throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.~ George WashingtonThe bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing.~ William Paterson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print