Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-12-31 Dec 31, 2025Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.~ Saul BellowThe decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …~ Justice Anthony KennedyWe even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society … would already enjoy.~ Ronald Reagan Dec 30, 2025Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.~ Daniel WebsterSpeak honestly, and the truth will make itself known.~ Eric SchaubHuman nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?~ John Adams Dec 29, 2025There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonDare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.~ George HerbertThere can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.~ George Jacob Holyoake Dec 26, 2025To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.~ John LockePerfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.~ Josiah Gilbert HollandLove is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Dec 25, 2025And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.~ Jesus of NazarethAnd forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.~ Jesus of NazarethBlessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.~ Jesus of Nazareth Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print