Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-03-28 Mar 28, 2005...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter -- with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more.. .a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.~ Thomas Jefferson Mar 25, 2005Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.~ H. L. MenckenThe work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.~ Igor SikorskyIndividualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.~ James Bryce Mar 24, 2005Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.~ Saul BellowThere is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our own opinions… It obviously endangers the freedom and the objectivity of our discussion if we attack a person instead of attacking an opinion or, more precisely, a theory.~ Sir Karl PopperHow much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.~ Benjamin Disraeli Mar 23, 2005I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival.~ Thomas MertonThere are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.~ Roger BaconBeware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.~ Aesop Mar 22, 2005Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.~ Robert Louis StevensonIf a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.~ Henry David Thoreau Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print