Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-09-21 Sep 21, 2026Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -- the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.~ Mark TwainThere is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.~ P. J. O'RourkeLet us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.~ Abraham Lincoln Sep 18, 2026Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.~ François Duc de La RochefoucauldHeresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.~ Robert G. IngersollIt is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 17, 2026One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.~ Georg Christoph LichtenbergWe don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.~ Marcel ProustNot by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.~ Titus Maccius Plautus Sep 16, 2026Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.~ Hubert H. HumphreyLiberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.~ H. L. MenckenThis freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.~ Robert Earl Hayden Sep 15, 2026A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.~ Alexander HamiltonThere can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.~ George WashingtonNo man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.~ Theodore Roosevelt Previous week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print