Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-09-15 Sep 14, 2001All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund BurkeGod who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.~ Thomas Jefferson Sep 13, 2001When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.~ John Adams Sep 12, 2001If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George WashingtonThe attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.~ Joseph SobranIt is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Sep 11, 2001There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.~ Henry David ThoreauThe Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.~ John AdamsIt does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.~ Samuel Adams Sep 10, 2001Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.~ Elias BoudinotDo what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print