Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-06-09 Jun 9, 2026It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.~ Herbert HooverThe highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.~ John Ruskin[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.~ Polybius Jun 8, 2026I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.~ George WashingtonNo man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.~ John Viscount MorleyNever esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Jun 5, 2026Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.~ Thomas S. MonsonWhen we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.~ C. Arthur CampbellIf you want to know the big 'T' Truth, tell the little 't' truth without fail. Then listen closely to what you say.~ Eric Schaub Jun 4, 2026A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.~ Alexander PopeAs there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another.~ James MadisonWe create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.~ Whitney Moore, Jr. Jun 3, 2026For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.~ AeschylusActually, it is not strange that during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the human race was regarded as inert matter, ready to receive everything -- form, face, energy, movement, life -- from a great prince or a great legislator or a great genius. These centuries were nourished on the study of antiquity. And antiquity presents everywhere -- in Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome -- the spectacle of a few men molding mankind according to their whims, thanks to the prestige of force and of fraud. But this does not prove that this situation is desirable. It proves only that since men and society are capable of improvement, it is naturally to be expected that error, ignorance, despotism, slavery, and superstition should be greatest towards the origins of history. The writers quoted above were not in error when they found ancient institutions to be such, but they were in error when they offered them for the admiration and imitation of future generations. Uncritical and childish conformists, they took for granted the grandeur, dignity, morality, and happiness of the artificial societies of the ancient world. They did not understand that knowledge appears and grows with the passage of time; and that in proportion to this growth of knowledge, might takes the side of right, and society regains possession of itself.~ Frederic Bastiat Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print