Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-06-01 May 30, 2003Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.~ Douglas AdamsSeeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.~ Benjamin DisraeliExperience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn.~ C. S. Lewis May 29, 2003In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson May 28, 2003The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals.~ Emma GoldmanNo one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...~ Maria MontessoriNo free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.~ Wendell Phillips May 27, 2003Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.~ Calvin CoolidgeWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.~ Mark TwainThe house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman May 26, 2003It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.~ Benjamin FranklinAnd this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.~ John SteinbeckWe have met the enemy and he is us.~ Walt Kelly Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print