Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-11-04 Nov 4, 2003Honor lies in honest toil.~ Grover ClevelandWhen we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.~ C. Arthur CampbellIdleness and lack of occupation tend -- nay are dragged -- towards evil.~ HippocratesThe purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.~ Robert Byrne Nov 3, 2003Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.~ Friedrich August von HayekDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.~ Khalil GibranFate is an open road, and all you can do is put your foot on the gas and Drive, Baby Drive.~ Padraig FlynnYou miss 100% of the shots you never take.~ Wayne Gretzky Oct 31, 2003The basis of a democratic state is liberty.~ AristotleAll might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.~ Samuel AdamsMen are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Oct 30, 2003The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.~ Walter LippmannLiberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.~ E. B. WhiteI have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'~ Woodrow Wilson Oct 29, 2003At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....~ Lord ActonIt is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.~ Immanuel KantEven if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.~ Will Rogers Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print