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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.more Napoleon Bonaparte quotes |
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.more Buddha quotes |
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Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.more Edmund Burke quotes |
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.more Edmund Burke quotes |
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.more Edmund Burke quotes |
When we regard a man as morally responsible for an act, we regard him as a legitimate object of moral praise or blame in respect of it. But it seems plain that a man cannot be a legitimate object of moral praise or blame for an act unless in willing the act he is in some important sense a ‘free’ agent. Evidently free will in some sense, therefore, is a precondition of moral responsibility.more C. Arthur Campbell quotes |
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The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.more Jimmy Carter quotes |
Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.more Cervantes quotes |
The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.more William Ellery Channing quotes |
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.more Edwin Hubbel Chapin quotes |
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.more Lydia M. Child quotes |
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The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.more Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes |
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Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character.more Henry Clay quotes |
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Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.more John Cogley quotes |
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While the people have property, arms in their hands, and only a spark of noble spirit, the most corrupt Congress must be mad to form any project of tyranny.more Rev. Nicholas Collin quotes |
The right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.more Colorado Constitution quotes |
He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.more Charles Caleb Colton quotes |
If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.more Confucius quotes |
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.more Confucius quotes |
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.more Joseph Conrad quotes |
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being...more Benjamin Constant quotes |
I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in Hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruptionmore Marvin Cooley quotes |
The right is general.
It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision
that the right to keep and bear arms
was only guaranteed to the militia;
but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
The militia, as has been explained elsewhere,
consists of those persons who, under the law,
are liable to the performance of military duty,
and are officered and enrolled for service
when called upon. . . .
[I]f the right were limited to those enrolled,
the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated altogether
by the action or the neglect to act
of the government it was meant to hold in check.
The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is,
that the people, from whom the militia must be taken,
shall have the right to keep and bear arms,
and they need no permission or regulation of law
for that purpose.more Thomas Cooley quotes |
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As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them.more Tench Coxe quotes |
To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.more e. e. cummings quotes |
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.more Clarence S. Darrow quotes |
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