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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.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.more Abraham Lincoln quotes |
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Prosperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.more Marios Vargas Llosa quotes |
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Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.more John Locke quotes |
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.more John Locke quotes |
If you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators.more Stony Loft quotes |
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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.more James Russell Lowell quotes |
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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?more Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes |
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.more James Madison quotes |
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.more James Madison quotes |
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.more Maimonides quotes |
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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.more Hiram Mann quotes |
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.more Peyton Conway March quotes |
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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.more George Mason quotes |
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In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.more Rupertus Meldenius quotes |
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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.more Mencius quotes |
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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.more Thomas Merton quotes |
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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.more John Stuart Mill quotes |
