There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
Calvin Coolidge
Tag: Quote of the Day
21APR2021 – Quote of the Day
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
20APR2021 – Quote of the Day
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
19APR2021 – Quote of the Day
The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18APR2021 – Quote of the Day
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
17APR2021 – Quote of the Day
A man is as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins
16APR2021 – Quote of the Day
The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.
Edward Coke
15APR2021 – Quote of the Day
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.
Edward Coke
14APR2021 – Quote of the Day
He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated
Edward Coke
13APR2021 – Quote of the Day
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
Edward Coke