Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-11-26 Nov 26, 2007I am aware that when even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition... (more)~ Mark Twain Nov 23, 2007The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways: I to die, and you to live. Which is better, God only knows.~ SocratesTruth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.~ William Cullen BryantThe fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.~ William Shakespeare Nov 22, 2007Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself -- and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.~ Chief JosephFreedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.~ Herbert HooverA man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.~ Woodrow Wilson Nov 21, 2007Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.~ Alexis de TocquevilleAll political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.~ Friedrich August von HayekAnd to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Nov 20, 2007The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.~ General H. Norman SchwarzkopfCount it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.~ JuvenalHypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print