Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-01-15 Jan 13, 2006Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims: they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of betterment.~ Lance MorrowOne of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't.~ Lyn NofzigerThe things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.~ Theodore Roosevelt Jan 12, 2006That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.~ Abraham LincolnIf you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time.~ Abraham LincolnShall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. ~ Abraham Lincoln Jan 11, 2006We all know our duty better than we discharge it.~ John RandolphThen what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves.~ Friedrich NietzscheMy father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.~ J. C. Watts, Jr. Jan 10, 2006He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch SpinozaNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.~ James BaldwinWe have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence.~ John W. Raper Jan 9, 2006The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIf you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito.~ Anita RoddickThe safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.~ Voltaire Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print