All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
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The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.
more Russell Kirk quotes
There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.
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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.
more Rabbi Harold Kushner quotes
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
more Louis Lamour quotes
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
more Rose Wilder Lane quotes
Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.
more Lao-Tzu quotes
A government can be compared to our lungs. Our lungs are best when we don't realize they are helping us breathe. It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs that we know they have come down with an illness.
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To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
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The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
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Suum cuique [To each his own, to each according to his merits.]
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There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men. And therewithal, whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God you learn.
more C. S. Lewis quotes
[Prosperity] knits a man to the world. He thinks he's 'finding his place in it,' while really it is finding its place in him.
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A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
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To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death --- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.
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It is easy to think the State has a lot of different objects -- military, political, economic, and what not. But in a way things are much simpler than that. The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden -- that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.
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Hitherto the plans of the educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted, and indeed we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses.
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The burning of an author’s books, imprisonment for opinion’s sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.
more Joseph Lewis quotes
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
more Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes
It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...
more Abraham Lincoln quotes
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
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
We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
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
Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
more Abraham Lincoln quotes
That 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.
more Abraham Lincoln quotes
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
more Abraham Lincoln quotes
Self-defence is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself...
more John Locke quotes
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
more John Locke quotes
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
Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.
more John Locke quotes
[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.
more John Locke quotes
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
more John Locke quotes
Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
more Vince Lombardi quotes
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
more Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quotes
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
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
more James Russell Lowell quotes
There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
more Clare Boothe Luce quotes
Peace if possible, but truth at any rate.
more Martin Luther quotes
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
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.
more Thomas Babington Macaulay quotes
There is no way; we make the road by walking it.
more Antonio Machado quotes
For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.
more Niccolo Machiavelli quotes
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
more Charles Mackay quotes
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