Category:Character
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable." Category:Character
1. "Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."
Category:Courage
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened." Category:Courage
3. "Where law ends, tyranny begins."
Category:Government
9. "If thou hast the place of a magistrate, deserve it by thy justice and dignify it by thy mercy. Be not too severe, lest thou be hated; nor too remiss, lest thou be slighted: so execute justice that thou mayest be loved; so execute mercy that thou mayest be feared."
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it."
"The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church." Reference
Category:Government
"Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government." Category:Government
Category:Good and Evil
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Category:Church
8. "Coincidences are spiritual puns."
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Category:Miscellaneous Quotes
"Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it." Category:Theology
2. "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."
Category:Devotional
3. "If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do so."
"Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good."
Category:Atheism
"If there were no God, there would be no atheists." Category:Atheism
"Politics---the art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of protecting each other from the other." Oscar AmeringerReference
Category:Conscience
