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2012 November 09
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"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right." |
"Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet
all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread." |
"Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it." |
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2012 November 08
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"Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?" |
"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." |
"I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself." |
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2012 November 07
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long.
It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." |
"In truth, in the case of individuals, their actual voting is not to be taken as proof of consent, even for the time being. On the contrary, it is to be considered that, without his consent having ever been asked, a man finds himself environed by a government that he cannot resist; a government that forces him to pay money, render service, and forego the exercise of many of his natural rights, under peril of weighty punishments. He sees, too, that other men practise this tyranny over him by the use of the ballot. He sees further that, if he will but use the ballot himself, he has some chance of relieving himself from this tyranny of others, by subjecting them to his own. In short, he finds himself, without his consent, so situated that, if he use the ballot, he may become a master; if he does not use it, he must become a slave. And he has no other alternative than these two. In self-defence, he attempts the former.
His case is analogous to that of a man who has been forced into battle, where he must either kill others, or be killed himself. Because, to save his own life in battle, a man attempts to take the lives of his opponents, it is not to be inferred that the battle is one of his own choosing. Neither in contests with the ballot -- which is a mere substitute for a bullet -- because, as his only chance of self-preservation, a man uses a ballot, is it to be inferred that the contest is one into which he voluntarily entered; that he voluntarily set up all his own natural rights, as a stake against those of others, to be lost or won by the mere power of numbers. On the contrary, it is to be considered that, in an exigency, into which he had been forced by others, and in which no other means of self-defence offered, he, as a matter of necessity, used the only one that was left to him." |
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2012 November 06
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"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." |
"Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?" |
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2012 November 05
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"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may." |
"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all." |
"If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime;
but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare." |
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