Samuel Horsley quotes

“Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.”
-- Samuel Horsley

Source : Samuel Horsley (1827). “Sermons”, p.104

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“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.”
-- Samuel Horsley

Source : Samuel Horsley (1811). “Sermons”, p.121

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“The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.”
-- Samuel Horsley

Source : Samuel Horsley (1811). “Sermons”, p.5

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“Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.”

“Government...may not be hostile to any religion or to the advocacy of no-religion; and it may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against another... The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality...”

“I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.”

“One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.”

“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”

“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.”

“So for us, the condition and preparation on and by which we are sheltered by that great hand, is the faith that asks, and the asking of faith. We must forsake the earthly props, but we must also believingly desire to be upheld by the heavenly arms. We make God responsible for our safety when we abandon other defense, and commit ourselves to Him.”

“If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster”

“While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.”

Source : "The Meaning of Life and Other Essays" by A.J. Ayer, ("The Meaning of Life"), 1990.

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”