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2010 May 28
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"No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted
purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity,
and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society." |
"In matters of conscience,
the law of majority has no place." |
"The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use
rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use --
of how to get men of power to live for the public
rather than off the public." |
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2010 May 27
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"Liberty cannot be preserved
without a general knowledge among the people, who have...
a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right
to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge,
I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers." |
"Our republic and its press will rise and fall together." |
"Truth never damages a cause that is just." |
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2010 May 26
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream." |
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth...
For my part, I am willing to know the whole truth;
to know the worst; and to provide for it." |
"Your silence gives consent." |
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2010 May 25
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"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery." |
"Man is condemned to be free." |
"We are not to expect to be translated
from despotism to liberty
in a feather-bed." |
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2010 May 24
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"Freedom is not a reward or a decoration
that is celebrated with champagne...
Oh no! It's a...long distance race,
quite solitary and very exhausting." |
"Today's problems cannot be solved
by thinking the way we thought
when we created them." |
"Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men." |
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