The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“[Men] who would rather go to jail than betray what they believe to be their duty to their fellow workers and the principles which they hold.”
From an issued statement from Mr. Benn on five dockers imprisoned for contempt of court (21 July 1972)
1970s
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The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Richard Nixon
(1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America
To John Dean in April 1973 http://books.google.com/?id=JpRAAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22If+you+are+going+to+lie+you+go+to+jail+for+the+lie+rather+than+the+crime+So+believe+me+don't+ever+lie%22&pg=PA42. Dean was due to testify before the Senate Watergate Committee, which he did on 25 June 1973.
1970s
“Stirner … holds to a joy-principle rather than to a pleasure-principle.”
John Carroll
(1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 143
“From now on, Montaigne would live for himself rather than for duty.”
describing Montaigne’s retirement at age 38, p. 24.
How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010)
“So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.”
John the Evangelist
(10–98) author of the Gospel of John; traditionally identified with John the Apostle of Jesus, John of Patmos (author o…
in 3 John 1:8 as quoted in www.ewtn.com http://www.ewtn.com/ewtn/bible/search_bible.asp#ixzz2yvDfbYUZ
Third Letter of John
John Quincy Adams
(1767–1848) American politician, 6th president of the United States (in office from 1825 to 1829)
Letter to A. Bronson (30 July 1838); a similar idea was later more famously expressed by Abraham Lincoln, "With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right".