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|  Lord Acton | Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end. | |
| Lord Acton | Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own
defence. | |
| Lord Acton | And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | |
| Douglas Adams | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | |
| Franklin P. Adams | Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. | |
| Henry Brooks Adams | Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | |
| John Quincy Adams | Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone. | |
| Aeschylus | Time as he grows old teaches all things. | |
| Aeschylus | Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. | |
| Aesop | It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. | |
| Aesop | The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. | |
| Aesop | The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. | |
| Aesop | The gods help them that help themselves. | |
| Aesop | Any excuse will serve a tyrant. | |
| Aesop | Familiarity breeds contempt. | |
| Aesop | Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. | |
| Aesop | Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. | |
| Aesop | Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. | |
| Aesop | Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. | |
| Aesop | We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. | |
| Aesop | While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. | |
| Aesop | Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. | |
| Aesop | Union gives strength. | |
| Aesop | I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. | |
| Aesop | Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. | |
| Aesop | Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. | |
| Aesop | A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. | |
| Aesop | Appearances often are deceiving. | |
| Aesop | Slow and steady wins the race. | |
| Aesop | We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. | |
| Aesop | No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. | |
| Aesop | People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. | |
| Aesop | Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing. | |
| Publius Terentius Afer | In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. | |
| Publius Terentius Afer | Moderation in all things. | |
| Publius Terentius Afer | Fortune helps the brave. | |
| African Proverb | Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. | |
| African Proverb | Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. | |
| Herbert Sebastien Agar | The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. | |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. | |
| Mohammed Ali | The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. | |
| Dante Alighieri | Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds. | |
| Woody Allen | The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep. | |
| Angolan Proverb | The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever. | |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas | Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. | |
| Aristotle | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. | |
| Aristotle | What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others. | |
| Aristotle | The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. | |
| Matthew Arnold | The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. | |
| Isaac Asimov | If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. | |
| Berthold Auerbach | Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. | |
| Marcus Aurelius | The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. | |
| Marcus Aurelius | He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. | |
| Richard Bach | There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. | |
| Richard Bach | There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. | |
| Francis Bacon | ...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise. | |
| Francis Bacon | Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Knowledge is power. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. | |
| James Baldwin | Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. | |
| Frederic Bastiat | Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone. | |
| Charles Baudelaire | The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist! | |
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher | There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. | |
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher | Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. | |
| Roy T. Bennett | Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes. | |
| Henri-Louis Bergson | Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. | |
| Yogi Berra | If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. | |
| Josh Billings | Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. | |
| William Blake | A truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent. | |
| William Blake | Where there is money there is no art. | |
| George Boas | When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time. | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. | |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. | |
| Jorge Luis Borges | Reality is not always probable, or likely. | |
| Ludwig Börne | Only the suppressed word is dangerous. | |
| Bosnian Proverb | Who lies for you will lie against you. | |
| James Boswell | Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. | |
| Anne Bradstreet | If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. | |
| Tom Braun | There is no wisdom without knowledge. | |
| Bertolt Brecht | Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you! | |
| Bellamy Brooks | Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. | |
| Heywood Hale Broun | Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will turn vegetarian. | |
| Merry Browne | The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. | |
| William Cullen Bryant | Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again. | |
| Buddha | Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. | |
| Buddha | Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. | |
| Buddha | | |
| Buddha | Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned. | |
| Edward Bulwer-Lytton | The pen is mightier than the sword. | |
| James Burgh | All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. | |
| Edmund Burke | They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. | |
| Edmund Burke | No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. | |
| Edmund Burke | Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. | |
| Edmund Burke | It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. | |
| Edmund Burke | All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing. | |
| Edmund Burke | In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. | |
| Edmund Burke | Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. | |
| Edmund Burke | We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. | |
| Edmund Burke | Liberty, without wisdom, is license. | |
| Edmund Burke | The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. | |
| Edmund Burke | The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. | |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | Men willingly believe what they wish. | |
| Albert Camus | Integrity has no need of rules. | |
| Albert Camus | How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. | |
| Orson Scott Card | If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. | |
| Andrew Carnegie | As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. | |
| Helena Cassadine | Ah yes, truth. Funny how everyone is always asking for it
but when they get it they don't believe it because
it's not the truth they want to hear. | |
| Gabrielle Chanel | Money for me has only one sound: liberty. | |
| John Jay Chapman | Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own. | |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Truth is sacred and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it. | |
| Chilon of Sparta | Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life. | |
| Chinese Proverb | Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. | |
| Chinese Proverb | If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. | |
| Chinese Proverb | Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own. | |
| Chinese Proverb | Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. | |
| Chinese Proverb | The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. | |
| Chinese Proverb | Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. | |
| Sir Winston Churchill | A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | The more laws, the less justice. | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others. | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free. | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | By doubting we all come at truth. | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | Endless money forms the sinews of war. | |
| Claudius | He who wants peace must prepare for war. | |
| Grover Cleveland | Honor lies in honest toil. | |
| Grover Cleveland | A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. | |
| William Kingdon Clifford | It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. | |
| Paulo Coelho | Absolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision. | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. | |
| Confucius | He who will not economize will have to agonize. | |
| Confucius | If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. | |
| Confucius | The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. | |
| Confucius | Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. | |
| Confucius | Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. | |
| Confucius | By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart. | |
| Calvin Coolidge | I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. | |
| John Cotton | If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. | |
| William Cowper | Then liberty, like day,\\
Breaks on the soul,\\
and by a flash from Heaven\\
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy. | |
| William Cowper | No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show\\
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. | |
| William Cowper | He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. | |
| William Cowper | Freedom has a thousand charms to show,\\
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. | |
| Davy Crockett | I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead. | |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. | |
| Myra Janco Daniels | Every private citizen has a public responsibility. | |
| Danish Proverb | He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. | |
| Clarence S. Darrow | There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action. | |
| Clarence S. Darrow | Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. | |
| Clarence S. Darrow | The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. | |
| Remy De Gourmont | The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it. | |
| Bertrand de Jouvenel | A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. | |
| Bertrand de Jouvenel | A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves. | |
| François Duc de La Rochefoucauld | Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment. | |
| François Duc de La Rochefoucauld | Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. | |
| François Duc de La Rochefoucauld | A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire. | |
| Guido De Ruggiero | The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality. | |
| Charles-Louis De Secondat | The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. | |
| W. Edwards Deming | If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. | |
| W. Edwards Deming | It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best. | |
| Demosthenes | Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. | |
| Max DePree | We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. | |
| Rene Descartes | If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. | |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much,
are the three pillars of learning. | |
| James Frank Dobie | Conform and be dull. | |
| John Dos Passos | Individuality is freedom lived. | |
| Rabbi Wayne Dosick | The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever. | |
| John Dryden | The most may err as grossly as the few. | |
| John Dryden | Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind. | |
| John Dryden | O freedom, first delight of human kind! | |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt | The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. | |
| Thomas A. Edison | Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. | |
| Albert Einstein | The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. | |
| Albert Einstein | Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. | |
| Albert Einstein | Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. | |
| Albert Einstein | Today's problems cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them. | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. | |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. | |
| George Eliot | Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Liberty is a slow fruit. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Good men must not obey the laws too well. | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. | |
| Quintus Ennius | That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast. | |
| Quintus Ennius | He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within. | |
| Desiderius Erasmus | War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. | |
| Stephanie Ericsson | When somebody lies, somebody loses. | |
| Padraig Flynn | Fate is an open road, and all you can do is put your foot on the gas and Drive, Baby Drive. | |
| B. C. Forbes | The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure. | |
| Anatole France | If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. | |
| Anne Frank | How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. | |
| Jerome D. Frank | Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. | |
| Viktor Frankl | Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to chose one’s attitudes in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Moderation in all things -- including moderation. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Plough deep while sluggards sleep. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in
their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of
the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be
looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase,
and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances
will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring
them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing
all your estates among them. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | There was never a good war, or a bad peace. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. | |
| Benjamin Franklin | Little strokes fell great oaks. | |
| French Aphorism | Constitutions are made of paper; Bayonets are made of steel. | |
| French Proverb | There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. | |
| Sigmund Freud | Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. | |
| Robert Frost | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. | |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. | |
| Indira Gandhi | You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. | |
| Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi | Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. | |
| Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi | An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. | |
| Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi | Truth never damages a cause that is just. | |
| Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi | A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. | |
| Henry George | He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it. | |
| German Proverb | One does evil enough when one does nothing good. | |
| Edward Gibbon | The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. | |
| Khalil Gibran | The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. | |
| Khalil Gibran | Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. | |
| Nikki Giovanni | In the name of peace They waged the wars Ain't they got no shame | |
| William Godwin | Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion. | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do. | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Lose this day loitering
'Twill be the same old story,
Tomorrow and the next,
Even more dilatory.
Whatever you would do,
Or dream of doing, begin it!
Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it.
Begin it now. | |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. | |
| Wavy Gravy | The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. | |
| Horace Greeley | I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. | |
| Wayne Gretzky | You miss 100% of the shots you never take. | |
| A. Whitney Griswold | Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. | |
| Lord Hailsham | Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power. | |
| Edison Haines | With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. | |
| Bernhard Haisch | Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. | |
| Alexander Hamilton | A fondness for power is implanted, in most men, and it is natural to abuse it, when acquired. | |
| Sydney J. Harris | Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. | |
| Vaclav Havel | Lying can never save us from another lie. | |
| William Hazlitt | The only vice
that can not be forgiven
is hypocrisy. | |
| Robert A. Heinlein | You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. | |
| Patrick Henry | We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth...
For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst; and to provide for it. | |
| Patrick Henry | We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth...
For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst; and to provide for it. | |
| Heraclitus | Nothing endures but change. | |
| Heraclitus | The people must fight for their laws as for their walls. | |
| Heraclitus | Man's character is his fate. | |
| Auberon Herbert | Politics must be the battle of the principles...
the principle of liberty against the principle of force. | |
| George Herbert | One sword keeps another in the sheath. | |
| L. M. Heroux | Make sure what you risk is yours to lose. | |
| Herman Hesse | Wisdom is not communicable.
The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate
always sounds foolish. | |
| Hillel | What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole Law: all the rest is interpretation. | |
| Hindu Saying | Pitiful is the one who, fearing failure, makes no beginning. | |
| Hippocrates | Idleness and lack of occupation tend -- nay are dragged -- towards evil. | |
| Eric Hoffer | You can never get enough of what you don't really need. | |
| Eric Hoffer | Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. | |
| Eric Hoffer | There can be no freedom without freedom to fail. | |
| Thomas Holcroft | To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils. | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland | Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty. | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded. | |
| Sidney Hook | To silence criticism is to silence freedom. | |
| Horace | Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. | |
| Horace | Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. | |
| A. E. Housman | The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall. | |
| Elbert Hubbard | Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them. | |
| Elbert Hubbard | Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;
wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. | |
| David Hume | Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the ease with which the many are governed by the few. | |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. | |
| Aldous Huxley | Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley | ...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. | |
| Henrik Ibsen | The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. | |
| Henrik Ibsen | One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, ‘I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. | |
| Indian Saying | When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. | |
| William Ralph Inge | Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due. | |
| Robert G. Ingersoll | There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments - there are only consequences. | |
| Robert G. Ingersoll | Courage without conscience is a wild beast. | |
| Eugene Ionesco | It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. | |
| Islamic Proverb | This world is the prison of the believers and the paradise of the unbelievers. | |
| Andrew Jackson | But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. | |
| Justice Robert H. Jackson | We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final. | |
| Cyril James | A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. | |
| Japanese Proverb | If you believe everything you read, you better not read. | |
| Japanese Proverb | The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. | |
| Julian Jaynes | History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past. | |
| Thomas Jefferson | When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred. | |
| Thomas Jefferson | I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. | |
| Thomas Jefferson | The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. | |
| Thomas Jefferson | It is a great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it's good dispositions. | |
| Thomas Jefferson | A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Stop judging by mere appearances, and make a right judgment. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For everyone that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | And Jesus went into the temple of God,
and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers,
and the seats of them that sold doves,
And said unto them, 'It is written,
My house shall be called the house of prayer;
but ye have made it a den of thieves.' | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. | |
| Jesus of Nazareth | And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. | |
| Jewish Proverb | What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth. | |
| Jewish Proverb | Truth is the safest lie. | |
| Kimberly Johnson | Never ruin an apology with an excuse. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | Courage is the first of all the virtues because if you haven't courage, you may not have the opportunity to use any of the others. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson | All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. | |
| Chief Joseph | It does not require many words to speak the truth. | |
| Juvenal | Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?) | |
| Immanuel Kant | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | |
| Immanuel Kant | It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. | |
| Abraham Kaplan | Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. | |
| John Keats | Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. | |
| John Keats | Beauty is truth, truth beauty," That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. | |
| Helen Keller | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. | |
| Helen Keller | I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. | |
| Walt Kelly | We have met the enemy and he is us. | |
| L. Lionel Kendrick | Integrity is the core of our character. | |
| John F. Kennedy | And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. | |
| Ken Kesey | Take what you can use and let the rest go by. | |
| John Maynard Keynes | The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. | |
| Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. | |
| Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity. | |
| Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. | |
| Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. | |
| Kingfish | All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas. | |
| Michael Kinsley | Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy. | |
| Russell Kirk | There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes. | |
| Henry Kissinger | We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. | |
| Henry Kissinger | Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. | |
| Louis Kronenberger | Many people today don't want honest answers
insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing.
They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. | |
| Rabbi Harold Kushner | I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. | |
| Sir Roger L'Estrange | One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. | |
| Louis Lamour | Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom. | |
| Lao-Tzu | Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking. | |
| Lao-Tzu | The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. | |
| Harold J. Laski | The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds. | |
| Late 16th Century Proverb | The road to hell is paved with good intentions. | |
| Latin Proverb | History is written by the victor. | |
| Latin Proverb | Suum cuique
[To each his own, to each according to his merits.] | |
| Latin Proverb | If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. | |
| Alan Jay Lerner | Only the mediocre are always at their best. | |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. | |
| C. S. Lewis | A little lie is like a little pregnancy: it doesn't take long before everyone knows. | |
| C. S. Lewis | Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn. | |
| Georg Christoph Lichtenberg | One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all of the time. | |
| Abraham Lincoln | If 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 Lincoln | No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. | |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. | |
| Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me. | |
| Walter Lippmann | When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. | |
| Marios Vargas Llosa | Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion. | |
| John Locke | To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues. | |
| John Locke | Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. | |
| John Locke | The only fence against the world
is a thorough knowledge of it. | |
| Stony Loft | If you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators. | |
| Vince Lombardi | Fatigue makes cowards of us all. | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. | |
| James Russell Lowell | And I honor the man \\ who is willing to sink \\ Half his present repute \\ for the freedom to think \\ And, when he has thought, \\ be his cause strong or weak \\ Will risk t’ other half \\ for the freedom to speak. | |
| James Russell Lowell | The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools. | |
| James Russell Lowell | A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. | |
| Martin Luther | Peace if possible, but truth at any rate. | |
| General Douglas MacArthur | There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | And 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? | |
| James Madison | In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself. | |
| James Madison | The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. | |
| Maimonides | Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it. | |
| Morris Mandel | Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all. | |
| Hiram Mann | No man escapes\\
When freedom fails,\\
The best men rot in filthy jails;\\
And they who cried: “Appease, Appease!”\\
Are hanged by men they tried to please. | |
| Peyton Conway March | There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else. | |
| Groucho Marx | The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. | |
| George Mason | No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles. | |
| W. Somerset Maugham | It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. | |
| Andre Maurois | In literature as in love, we are astonished by what is chosen by others. | |
| Phyllis McGinley | Those wearing Tolerance for a label, Call other views intolerable. | |
| Rupertus Meldenius | In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas \\
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. | |
| Menander | It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. | |
| Mencius | To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads -- such is the behavior of the multitude. | |
| H. L. Mencken | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | |
| H. L. Mencken | Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. | |
| H. L. Mencken | Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. | |
| H. L. Mencken | Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking. | |
| H. L. Mencken | For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. | |
| H. L. Mencken | All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. | |
| Thomas Merton | I 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. | |
| Michelangelo | Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. | |
| John Stuart Mill | Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. | |
| John Stuart Mill | Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest. | |
| Olin Miller | To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. | |
| John Milton | None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants. | |
| John Milton | When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for. | |
| The Mishnah | Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure. | |
| Edgar J. Mohn | A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. | |
| John Viscount Morley | You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. | |
| Malcolm Muggeridge | Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. | |
| Bert Murray | Conscience is that still, small voice that is sometimes too loud for comfort. | |
| A. J. Muste | There is no way to peace; peace is the way. | |
| Ogden Nash | Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for. | |
| Native American Story | A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt about a tragedy. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” The grandson asked him, “Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?” The grandfather answered, “The one I feed.” | |
| Thomas Neill | Of those who say nothing, few are silent. | |
| Harriet Nelson | Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. | |
| Huey P. Newton | The revolution has always been in the hands of the young.
The young always inherit the revolution. | |
| Huey P. Newton | You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. | |
| Swami Nirmalananda | Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. | |
| Kathleen Norris | In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. | |
| Suso Ohno | As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past. | |
| George Orwell | If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. | |
| Ovid | Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.) | |
| Thomas Paine | He who dares not offend cannot be honest. | |
| Thomas Paine | When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. | |
| Thomas Paine | Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. | |
| Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit | The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. | |
| Alan Paton | You ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. | |
| General George S. Patton, Jr. | I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. | |
| General George S. Patton, Jr. | Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. | |
| Cesare Pavese | To know the world one must construct it. | |
| J. H. Payne | Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home. | |
| M. Scott Peck | Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. | |
| William Penn | To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. | |
| William Penn | A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it. | |
| Persius | Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
[Lat., An quisquam est alius liber, nisi ducere vitam
Cui licet, ut voluit?] | |
| Francis Picabia | A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. | |
| Plato | Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. | |
| Plato | Do not expect justice where might is right. | |
| Plato | Only the dead have seen the end of war. | |
| Plato | Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. | |
| Plato | Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. | |
| Titus Maccius Plautus | Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. | |
| Titus Maccius Plautus | No man is wise enough by himself. | |
| Plutarch | The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. | |
| Alexander Pope | Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. | |
| Alexander Pope | Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. | |
| Alexander Pope | A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. | |
| Ezra Pound | Liberty is not a right but a duty. | |
| Elvis Presley | Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away. | |
| Proverb | Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark. | |
| Proverb | Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. | |
| Proverb | Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. | |
| Proverb | Observation, and not old age, brings wisdom. | |
| Proverb | The wise learn from the experience of others, most from their own experience, and fools not at all. | |
| Proverb | A person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is never sure. | |
| Proverb | An honest answer is the sign of true friendship. | |
| Proverb | Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. | |
| Proverb | The wise do freely, early and in good time, what fools do later out of necessity. | |
| Bulgarian Proverb | Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. | |
| Chinese Proverb | Outside noisy, inside empty. | |
| Irish Proverb | Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth. | |
| Navajo Proverb | You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. | |
| Roman Proverb | It is better to live one day as a lion, than one hundred years as a sheep | |
| Proverbs | The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going. | |
| Marcus Fabius Quintilianus | Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. | |
| Ayn Rand | It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. | |
| John Randolph | We all know our duty better than we discharge it. | |
| John W. Raper | We have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence. | |
| Adrienne Rich | Lying is done with words and also with silence. | |
| Will Rogers | Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. | |
| Roman Proverb | Felix qui nihil debet. (Happy is he who owes nothing.) | |
| Theodore Roosevelt | No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency. | |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. | |
| Dr. Benjamin Rush | Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error. | |
| Bertrand Russell | Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. | |
| Bertrand Russell | To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. | |
| Bertrand Russell | The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. | |
| Russian proverb | With lies you may get ahead in the world - but you can never go back. | |
| William Safire | Never assume the obvious is true. | |
| Patricia Sampson | Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. | |
| Carl Sandburg | Nothing happens unless first a dream. | |
| George Santayana | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | |
| George Santayana | Only the dead have seen the end of war. | |
| George Santayana | The wisest mind has something yet to learn. | |
| George Santayana | Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does. | |
| Jean-Baptiste Say | Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right? | |
| French Saying | Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme.
(Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.) | |
| Eric Schaub | The Truth is not a thing. It is alive. It cannot be grasped. It is spoken. | |
| Eric Schaub | Life is but a blink,
and it matters. | |
| Eric Schaub | Speak honestly, and the truth will make itself known. | |
| Eric Schaub | If you want to know the big 'T' Truth,
tell the little 't' truth without fail.
Then listen closely to what you say. | |
| Eric Schaub | A seeker of truth is no stranger to controversy. | |
| Eric Schaub | Truth need only be spoken. | |
| Eric Schaub | When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires. | |
| Eric Schaub | The more I truly learn, I realize the less I truly know. | |
| Eric Schaub | Remember, the sky starts at your feet. | |
| Eric Schaub | Among the mighty are those who recognize beauty as power, and power as beautiful. | |
| Eric Schaub | It takes two wings to fly. | |
| Eric Schaub | Every party skews the facts to their advantage, and inevitably, the minority party must resort to telling the truth. | |
| Eric Schaub | There is no Freedom without Courage. | |
| Eric Schaub | Life is a gift. Freedom is a responsibility. | |
| Eric Schaub | By a Declaration, Liberty is born.
With Courage she is nourished, and
with unceasing Commitment she is guarded. | |
| Eric Schaub | The process of liberation is continuous. | |
| Eric Schaub | Some truths need to be learned from the inside. | |
| Eric Schaub | The truth doesn't sell. It is high in supply, but low in demand. | |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. | Righteousness is easy in retrospect. | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | All truth passes through 3 stages.\\
First, it is ridiculed.\\
Second, it is violently opposed.\\
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. | |
| General H. Norman Schwarzkopf | The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. | |
| Albert Schweitzer | I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. | |
| Sir Walter Scott | O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive! | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | It is quality rather than quantity that matters. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | What is freedom? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any restraint, to any chance. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | As long as you live, keep learning how to live. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | That is why we give to children a proverb, or that which the Greeks call Chreia, to be learned by heart; that sort of thing can be comprehended by the young mind, which cannot as yet hold more. For a man, however, whose progress is definite, to chase after choice extracts and to prop his weakness by the best known and the briefest sayings and to depend upon his memory, is disgraceful; it is time for him to lean on himself. He should make such maxims and not memorize them. For it is disgraceful even for an old man, or one who has sighted old age, to have a note-book knowledge. "This is what Zeno said." But what have you yourself said? "This is the opinion of Cleanthes." But what is your own opinion? How long shall you march under another man's orders? Take command, and utter some word which posterity will remember. Put forth something from your own stock. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Not lost, but gone before. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough. | |
| Lucius Annaeus Seneca | That man lives badly who does not know how to die well. | |
| William Shakespeare | The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. | |
| George Bernard Shaw | When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. | |
| Harry Shearer | If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? | |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind. | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | You must believe in free will; there is no choice. | |
| Isaac Bashevis Singer | We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions. | |
| Mark Skousen | No one spends someone else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. | |
| Slovenian Proverb | Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. | |
| Socrates | Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions,
but those who kindly reprove thy faults. | |
| King Solomon | These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. | |
| Solon | If through your vices you afflicted are,
Lay not the blame of your distress on God;
You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards,
So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod. | |
| Solon | A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality. | |
| Sophocles | Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud. | |
| Herbert Spencer | The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. | |
| Dan Stanford | Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. | |
| John Steinbeck | And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. | |
| Gloria Steinem | Law and justice are not always the same. | |
| Stendhal | The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same. | |
| Casey Stengel | They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. | |
| General Joseph W. Stilwell | Illegitimati non carborundum. (Don't let the bastards grind you down.) | |
| Jim Stovall | Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching. | |
| Thomas Szasz | The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.'
But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself. | |
| Cornelius Tacitus | Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws. | |
| Cornelius Tacitus | Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges. (The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.) | |
| Cornelius Tacitus | In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course. | |
| Rabindrnath Tagore | If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out. | |
| Rebazar Tarzs | Illusions are like mistresses.
We can have many of them
without tying ourselves down to responsibility.
But truth insists on marriage.
Once a person embraces truth,
he is in its ruthless, but gentle, grasp. | |
| Alfred Lord Tennyson | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | |
| Mother Teresa | If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. | |
| The Holy Bible | For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. | |
| The Holy Bible | Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. | |
| The Holy Bible | While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. | |
| The Holy Bible | Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. | |
| The Holy Bible | So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. | |
| The Holy Bible | But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids. | |
| The Holy Bible | Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth. | |
| The Koran | He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. | |
| The Mahabharata | This is the sum of all true righteousness: deal with others as thou wouldst thyself be dealt by. Do nothing to thy neighbor which thou wouldst not have him do to thee hereafter. | |
| The Talmud | If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | To be awake is to be alive. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | That government is best which governs least. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Things do not change, we change. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. | |
| Henry David Thoreau | A gun gives you the body, not the bird. | |
| Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi | Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. | |
| Arnold J. Toynbee | Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor. | |
| Harry S. Truman | I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. | |
| Mark Twain | Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. | |
| Mark Twain | A classic is a book which people praise and don't read. | |
| Mark Twain | Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. | |
| Mark Twain | Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | |
| Mark Twain | Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. | |
| Mark Twain | Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. | |
| Mark Twain | Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense. | |
| Mark Twain | When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. | |
| Mark Twain | Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. | |
| Mark Twain | We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. | |
| Mark Twain | Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. | |
| Mark Twain | It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them. | |
| Mark Twain | If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. | |
| Mark Twain | When in doubt, tell the truth. | |
| Mark Twain | Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to. | |
| Stewart L. Udall | We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. | |
| Unknown | The slow man with integrity will ultimately catch the swift one who has none. | |
| Unknown | There's a little truth to every 'just kidding'. | |
| Unknown | Never risk what you can't afford to lose. | |
| Unknown | Be more aware of your responsibilities than of your rights. | |
| Unknown | No shade tree? Blame not the sun, but yourself. | |
| U. S. Treasury | Mind Your Business | |
| Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut | In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice, there is. | |
| Vique's Law | A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle. | |
| Voltaire | What is not in nature can never be true. | |
| Voltaire | The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. | |
| Voltaire | It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. | |
| Voltaire | Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. | |
| Voltaire | It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. | |
| Voltaire | History is fables agreed upon. | |
| Voltaire | The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all. | |
| Ludwig Von Mises | The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air. | |
| Robert von Musil | One does what one is; one becomes what one does. | |
| Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. | We are what we pretend to be. | |
| Marilyn vos Savant | To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. | |
| Lemuel K. Washburn | Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. | |
| Booker T. Washington | You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. | |
| Booker T. Washington | I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed. | |
| George Washington | There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily. | |
| George Washington | May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy. | |
| George Washington | Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart. | |
| Simone Weil | There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime – namely, repressive justice. | |
| Simone Weil | Liberty consists in the ability to choose. | |
| John Wesley | Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can. | |
| William Allen White | Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. | |
| Rev. George Whitefield | There but for the grace of God go I. | |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Every really new idea looks crazy at first. | |
| Elie Wiesel | The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. | |
| Oscar Wilde | A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. | |
| Oscar Wilde | The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. | |
| Tad Williams | We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. | |
| John Wooden | Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. | |
| Virginia Woolf | Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | The truth is more important than the facts. | |
| Yiddish Proverb | A half truth is a whole lie. | |
| Frank Zappa | Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. | |
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