Quotation Collection

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. Socrates

• knowledge
• ignorance

Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing. Bart Conner

• purpose
• enthusiasm

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. Conrad Hilton

• persistence
• success
• mistakes

By the democratic principles we espouse, government cannot have a right that citizens do not grant it. There are certain things that a person has no right to do. A person has no right to murder or rape another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to murder and rape. Similarly, no person has the right to forcibly take the property of one person in order to give it to another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to do the same thing. If I forcibly took property from one person, for any reason, most people would condemn it as theft, an immoral act. Theft or any other immoral act does not become moral because it is done by government acting on behalf of a consensus or majority vote just as murder or rape does not become a moral act simply because of a consensus or majority vote. Walter E. Williams

• government
• justice
• rights