Sunday, July 31, 2005
Daily Quotes: Patrick Henry
Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most scared rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take everything else!...Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Saturday, July 30, 2005
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Daily Quotes: John F. Kennedy
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Daily Quotes: Richard M. Nixon
We can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
Monday, July 18, 2005
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Daily Quotes: George W. Bush
In the long run, there's no capitalism without conscience; there is no wealth without character.
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Daily Quotes: Abraham Lincoln
I do the best very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Friday, July 15, 2005
Daily Quotes: Groucho Marx
There is only one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "yes," you know he's crooked.
Thursday, July 14, 2005
Daily Quotes: Andrew Carnegie
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Daily Quotes: Sam Rayburn
You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Monday, July 11, 2005
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Daily Quotes: Demosthenes
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Friday, July 08, 2005
Daily Quotes: Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice
There is a difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
Thursday, July 07, 2005
Daily Quotes: Old Yiddish Saying
Klaineh ganovim hengt men; groisseh shenkt men.
Petty thieves are hanged; big thieves are pardoned
Petty thieves are hanged; big thieves are pardoned
Wednesday, July 06, 2005
Daily Quotes: Upton Sinclair
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Daily Quotes: Abigail Van Buren
The best index to a person's character is:
- How he treats people who can't do him any good, and
- How he treats people who can't fight back
Monday, July 04, 2005
Daily Quotes: Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Sunday, July 03, 2005
Saturday, July 02, 2005
Daily Quotes: Abba Eban
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
Friday, July 01, 2005
Daily Quotes: Winston Churchill
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles: others their principles for the sake of their party.
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