Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-10-07 Oct 7, 2026It is the duty of a citizen in a free country not to fit into society but to make society.~ John HoltOur duty, as men and women is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.~ Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFor the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.~ Samuel Richardson Oct 6, 2026Slow and steady wins the race.~ AesopNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund BurkeI have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 5, 2026There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.~ Mary LyonHe who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.~ MenanderThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.~ Theodore Roosevelt Oct 2, 2026Who then is free? The wise who can command his passions, who fears not want, nor death, nor chains, firmly resisting his appetites and despising the honors of the world, who relies wholly on himself, whose angular points of character have all been rounded off and polished.~ HoraceAny single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.~ John LockeThe man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.~ Martin Luther Oct 1, 2026The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.~ Andrew JacksonCrime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers.~ Jeffrey R. Snyder[F]or everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.~ Lysander Spooner Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print