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2016 September 23
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"The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves.
Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions.
The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil.
He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you,
remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!" |
"Congress is continually appointing fact-finding committees,
when what we really need are some fact-facing committees." |
"Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do,
but rather for how their acts are defined.
This is why men are more interested in better
justifying themselves than in behaving themselves." |
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2016 September 22
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"It is a great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual, he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all it's good dispositions." |
"Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood." |
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." |
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2016 September 21
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"It is discouraging to think
how many people are shocked by honesty
and how few by deceit." |
"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is impossible that a nation of infidels or idolaters should be a nation of freemen. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." |
"No man who is corrupt,
no man who condones corruption in others,
can possibly do his duty by the community." |
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2016 September 20
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"The executive branch of this government never has,
nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct
of its officers to escape with impunity." |
"[There can be no] rational administration of government
when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones." |
"O, what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive!" |
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2016 September 19
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"There is no greater fallacy than the belief that
aims and purposes are one thing,
while methods and tactics are another...
All human experience teaches that
methods and means cannot be separated
from the ultimate aim." |
"Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that,
in our endeavour consciously to shape our future
in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact
unwittingly produce the very opposite of
what we have been striving for?" |
"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly-prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong." |
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