Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-08-06 Aug 6, 2001Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.~ W. C. FieldsI can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.~ John CageThere are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.~ Heisenberg Aug 3, 2001These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.~ Thomas PaineCourage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven't courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonI like a man who grins when he fights.~ Sir Winston Churchill Aug 2, 2001We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.~ H. L. MenckenIt is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther BurbankA fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.~ Sir Winston Churchill Aug 1, 2001Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinIf all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.~ John Stuart MillMost people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.~ Frank Zappa Jul 31, 2001It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.~ Etienne de la BoétieFind out just what the people will submit to and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.~ Frederick Douglass Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print