Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-05-11 May 11, 2007You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.~ Clarence S. DarrowWhere the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?~ Niccolo MachiavelliFor what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May 10, 2007Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.~ Thomas JeffersonMere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.~ Earl WarrenWhat our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude -- and a lot less greed.~ Michelle Malkin May 9, 2007Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.~ John F. KennedyFor good or evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.~ Joyce CaryWhenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.~ William Godwin May 8, 2007An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth, or it is an error; it can never be a crime or a virtue.~ Frances WrightHistory fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.~ General Douglas MacArthurThe greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.~ Immanuel Kant May 7, 2007To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace; and, that to model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.~ Alexander Hamilton... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.~ Alexis de TocquevilleNo age is unique in producing privileged persons who can happily dichotomize condemnation of their society and enjoyment of its fruits. The eighteenth century had its landau liberals as the nineteenth would have its carriage Communists.~ Alf Mapp, Jr. Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print