Vasyl Sukhomlynsky famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Freedom is never given; it is won.

  • Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

  • You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  • Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

  • As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  • Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought

  • It is vain for you to expect, it is impudent for you to ask of God forgiveness on your own behalf, if you refuse to exercise this forgiving temper with respect to others.

  • Self-respect governs morality: respect for others governs our behavior.

  • He who respects others is respected by them.

  • I don't like disrespecting other teams.