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2007 November 23
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"The hour of departure has arrived,
and we go our ways:
I to die, and you to live.
Which is better, God only knows." |
"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again." |
"The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." |
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2007 November 22
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"Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop,
free to work, free to trade where I choose,
free to choose my own teachers,
free to follow the religion of my fathers,
free to talk, think and act for myself --
and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty." |
"Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only
if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents,
free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security
of his old age and his family." |
"A man who thinks of himself as belonging
to a particular national group in America
has not yet become an American.
And the man who goes among you to trade
upon your nationality is no worthy son
to live under the Stars and Stripes." |
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2007 November 21
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"Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom." |
"All political theories assume, of course,
that most individuals are very ignorant.
Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest
in that they include among the ignorant
themselves as well as the wisest." |
"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?" |
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2007 November 20
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"The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it." |
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having." |
"Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most
penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,
and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised." |
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2007 November 19
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"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws." |
"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin." |
"If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation,
I must understand that I can have no other man under my control." |
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