Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-04-14 Apr 14, 2004If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.~ Mother TeresaLoud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.~ Adi ShankaracharyaHow wonderful the world might be if only we gave to each other all the love we claim to give to God, a thought which has been expressed time and time again, yet it still manages to resound with a poignance that is almost painful. Such a world can be ours, sisters and brothers. Let us work together to achieve it.~ John J. Dunphy Apr 13, 2004Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels.~ Hazrat Inayat KhanWords have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.~ BuddhaKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Apr 12, 2004To be awake is to be alive.~ Henry David ThoreauMy religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.~ Albert EinsteinThe opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.~ Elie Wiesel Apr 9, 2004The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.~ Andrew JacksonThey [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith. ~ Dwight D. EisenhowerEvery time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to the same extent we are sacrificing the liberties of our people.~ John F. Kennedy Apr 8, 2004Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.~ Ronald ReaganMan is not free unless government is limited.... As government expands, liberty contracts.~ Ronald ReaganOurs was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free. This belief has been the underlying basis for everything I've tried to do these past eight years.~ Ronald ReaganYou and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. Plutarch warned, 'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'~ Ronald Reagan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print