Quotes on Doe

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

Democracy does not create strong ties between people. But it does make living together easier.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,_x000D_ _x000D_ then it better not come at all.

Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God. It is not that man's will is crushed, but that man's heart is broken.

Every village has its simpleton, and if one does not exist they invent one to pass the time.

My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one

Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.