Fair Play Quotes - Page 3

• 'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Law, Play, Criminals

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.648, Race Point Pub

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you believe women are constituted differently to men then remove taxation from them. But if you're a democrat and you believe in government of the people by the people and for the people, then you believe in fair play. So when you tax women, give them the vote as well.

  James Munro

  Women, Believe, Government

  4 Copy quote

• Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.

  George MacDonald

  Mean, Play, Giving

  George MacDonald, Rolland Hein (2004). “The Heart of George MacDonald: A One-Volume Collection of His Most Important Fiction, Essays, Sermons, Drama, and Biographical Information”, p.39, Regent College Publishing

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The natural impulses of every thoroughbred include his sense of honor; his love of fair play and courage; his dislike of pretense and of cheapness.

  Emily Post

  Play, Honor, His Love

  Emily Post (1945). “Children are People: And Ideal Parents are Comrades”

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Errors, Play

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.

  Margaret Fuller

  Encouragement, Struggle, Play

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.33, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

  4 Copy quote

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Play, Justice, Frustrated

  5 Copy quote

• The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Party, Humor, Play

  4 Copy quote

• I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play; she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!

  William Congreve

  Echoes, Play, Giving

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.268

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most people play a fair game of golf - if you watch them.

  Joey Lauren Adams

  Golf, Games, Play

  14 Copy quote

• Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Courage, Sex, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.59, BookBaby

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase. 'Malo libertatem periculosam quam quietem servitutem.' Let common sense and common honesty have fair play, and they will soon set things to rights.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Honesty, Taken, Blood

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.77

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.

  Michael Parenti

  Honesty, Hard Work, Compassion

  61 Copy quote

• The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Men, Play

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

  8 Copy quote

  Show source