Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-01-09 Jan 9, 2001[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.~ John AdamsA right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark Jan 8, 2001Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.~ Edmund BurkeThe first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.~ Richard A. Viguerie Jan 5, 2001Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroA fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.~ George Bernard Shaw Jan 4, 2001Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.~ Percy Bysshe ShelleyA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonWe must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.~ Daniel Boorstin Jan 3, 2001The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.~ Albert EinsteinIf knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.~ Isaac Asimov Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print