Thoughts
From William Ernest Hocking
For in the last analysis, the thought and conscience of the individual man are the only thought and conscience there are.. There is, in literal truth, no public mind: there are only the minds of the persons composing the public. There is no public conscience; there are only their several consciences. Dry these functions up, or bind the life out of them, and all the mental and moral life of the public is stopped at its source.
2018-06-21 at 11:30:11
From Samuel Eliot Morison
Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Independence was no conscious goal, secretly nurtured in cellar or jungle by bearded conspirators, but a reluctant last resort, to preserve "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
2018-06-20 at 17:08:49
From Voltaire
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
2018-06-15 at 14:20:20
From George Winder
Innovation, invention, change, all depend on the freedom of the individual to stand on his own two feet.
2018-06-14 at 16:58:59
From John Adams
Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
2018-06-11 at 16:36:23
From Booker T. Washington
I am afraid that there is a certain class of race problem-solvers who do not want the patient to get well because, as long as the disease holds out, they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
2018-06-10 at 18:14:53
From Ms Hazel Russman
I wonder what will come out of the Kim-Trump meeting. The idea of two such lunatics negotiating with each other is beyond satire.
2018-06-10 at 18:05:55
More From Ludwig von Mises
Social development is always a collaboration for joint action; the social relationship always means peace, never war. Death-dealing actions and war are anti-social. All those theories which regard human progress as an outcome of conflicts between human groups have overlooked this truth.
2018-06-07 at 14:40:32
More From H. L. Mencken
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.
2018-06-05 at 17:31:22
More From Cousin Lucky
Gender and skin color do not reflect the " depth or vastness of the soul " within any human being!! Unfortunately many human beings minds are so small that only trivial matters, such as gender or skin color, are of any importance to them or the way that they live their lives!!
2018-06-03 at 10:42:11
More From Ron Paul
In the final analysis, the last line of defense in support of freedom and the United States Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.
2018-05-31 at 17:06:50
From Rev. John Triglio Jr. And Rev. Kenneth Brighenti
Patriotism is not the same as nationalism. The former is a healthy love and respect for your country, but the latter is blind, total, and unrestricted support for any and all legislation, policies, or activities of a nation.
Nationalism is the extreme, whereas patriotism is the goal, because good patriots know when to challenge their political leaders, laws, and policies when they become unjust or immoral.
2018-05-30 at 15:20:59
From Judge Learned Hand
You may ask what then will become of the fundamental principles of equity and fair play which our constitutions enshrine; and whether I seriously believe that unsupported they will serve merely as counsels of moderation. I do not think that anyone can say what will be left of those principles; I do not know whether they will serve only as counsels; but this much I think I do know -- that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.
2018-05-22 at 16:43:07
From H. L. Mencken
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
2018-05-18 at 17:49:38
From Margaret Kimberley
The worst hate group in the United States is not the Ku Klux Klan or any self-proclaimed alt-right group. The most racist, vicious, and deadly menace to black ( African-American ) people in this country is law enforcement. The police, courts and prisons exist primarily to keep as many black people under control as possible. All other claims of usefulness are phony and cover up the racist cruelties inherent to their existence.
2018-05-17 at 08:18:59