Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-03-28 Mar 28, 2001In a free society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether physical coercion -- violence against persons or property -- occurs. There is no right not to be offended by words, actions or symbols.~ Richard E. Sincere, Jr.Whether or not legislation is truly moral is often a question of who has the power to define morality.~ Jerome H. SkolnickWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.~ Henry Kissinger Mar 27, 2001The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher standard.~ George McGovernAmerica was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation.~ Henry Steele Commager Mar 26, 2001The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance -- a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms -- A Nation of Finger Pointers.~ Lance MorrowLiberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.~ William Allen White Mar 23, 2001Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.~ VoltaireWe are all full of weakness and errors, let us mutually pardon each other our follies. It is the first law of nature.~ Voltaire Mar 22, 2001Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness, learning only by incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map of our infintesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness.~ Leslie Stephen Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print