PandemicSoul Quotelog

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

(via Neatorama)

Good manners are said to be the lubricant of social interaction. Saying “please” shows you respect someone, and saying “thank you” tells them you appreciate them.

(from I will change your life . com)

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

If fifty million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

(via Vagabox Burn)

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

(via Vagabox Burn)

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

On escaping from slavery.
(via Vagabox Burn)

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

(via Vagabox Burn)

A tyrant is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

(via Vagabox Burn)

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

(via Vagabox Burn)

In the 1980s capitalism triumphed over communism. In the 1990s it triumphed over democracy.

(via Vagabox Burn)

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

(via Vagabox Burn)

The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

(via Vagabox Burn)

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

(via Vagabox Burn)

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

(via Vagabox Burn)