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2007 May 11
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"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." |
"Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?" |
"For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?" |
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2007 May 10
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"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...
to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man." |
"Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned.
The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society." |
"What our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude -- and a lot less greed." |
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2007 May 09
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." |
"For good or evil, man is a free creative spirit.
This produces the very queer world we live in,
a world in continuous creation and therefore
continuous change and insecurity." |
"Whenever government assumes to deliver us
from the trouble of thinking for ourselves,
the only consequences it produces are
those of torpor and imbecility." |
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2007 May 08
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"An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense,
nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken;
it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth,
or it is an error; it can never be a crime or a virtue." |
"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject
to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline.
There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse,
or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." |
"The greatest problem for the human species,
the solution of which nature compels him to seek,
is that of attaining a civil society
which can administer justice universally." |
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2007 May 07
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"To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude,
that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast,
with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace;
and, that to model our political systems upon speculations of lasting tranquility,
is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character." |
"... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." |
"No age is unique in producing privileged persons who can happily dichotomize condemnation of their society and enjoyment of its fruits. The eighteenth century had its landau liberals as the nineteenth would have its carriage Communists." |
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