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Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2025 8:46 pm
by ArthurJ
Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

John Milton (1608-1674)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2025 2:55 am
by ArthurJ
Regarding the Constitution...

"We have to give reason a fighting chance against appetite, passion and ambition."

James Madison (1751-1836)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:30 am
by ArthurJ
"Beware the weak man."

Timothy Snyder

Author of:

• On Freedom
https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Timothy- ... 593728726/

• On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty-L ... 804190119/

and others

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 10:49 pm
by ArthurJ
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Benjamin Franklin

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2025 10:25 pm
by ArthurJ
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 1:35 pm
by ArthurJ
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 6:20 am
by ArthurJ
"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries. Everywhere else we may be bound by laws and conventions—there we have none."

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2025 1:46 am
by ArthurJ
"The freedom of the press should be inviolate."

John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:47 pm
by ArthurJ
"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing."

Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2025 2:29 am
by Petr75
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"The only thing all predictions have in common is that they are wrong."

Milan Kundera (1929–2023)

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2026 8:49 pm
by ArthurJ
"Not everything that's faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it's faced."

James Baldwin

Re: Quote of the day

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2026 9:15 pm
by ArthurJ
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.