Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.
Richard Hooker
Tag: Quote of the Day
24JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
To fathers within their private families Nature hath given a supreme power; for which cause we see throughout the world even from the foundation thereof, all men have ever been taken as lords and lawful kings in their own houses. Howbeit over a whole grand multitude having no such dependency upon any one, and consisting of so many families as every politic society in the world doth, impossible it is that any should have complete lawful power, but by consent of men, or immediate appointment of God; because not having the natural superiority of fathers, their power must needs be either usurped, and then unlawful; or, if lawful, then either granted or consented unto by them over whom they exercise the same, or else given extraordinarily from God, unto whom all the world is subject.
Richard Hooker
23JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
It is an axiom of Nature that natural desire cannot utterly be frustrate.
Richard Hooker
22JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
21JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
20JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase “due process of law” there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
19JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Life is a roar of bargain and battle, but in the very heart of it there rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole. It transmutes the dull details into romance. It reminds us that our only but wholly adequate significance is as parts of the unimaginable whole. It suggests that even while living we are living to ends outside ourselves’
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
18JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
17JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
16JUN2022 – Quote of the Day
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.