Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-06-25 Jun 23, 2023The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.~ Merry BrowneThroughout history, the attachment of even the humblest people to their freedom…has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues.~ Paul Bede JohnsonAuthority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.~ Robert Lindner Jun 22, 2023Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.~ ConfuciusMen cannot see truth, because they love falsehood. The gospel is not seen, because it is too pure for their loose lives and lewd thoughts.~ Charles Haddon SpurgeonI have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 21, 2023There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.~ Friedrich August von HayekHuman rights are not a privilege conferred by government. They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity. The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ... You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth.~ Mother TeresaWhile they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. ~ The Holy Bible Jun 20, 2023If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.~ Hans EysenckLet us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe... till we come to the hard bottom of rocks in place, which we can call reality.~ Henry David ThoreauReasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.~ Orson Scott Card Jun 19, 2023Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live.~ Calvin CoolidgeTo be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.~ Ashleigh BrilliantThe house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print