Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 471 Independence quotesIndependence QuotesIndependence Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.~ Dag Hammarskjold There, I guess King George will be able to read that.~ John Hancock Words are chameleons, which reflect the colour of their environment.~ Judge Learned Hand One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.~ John Marshall Harlan II Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.~ B. H. Liddell Hart A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular, however rasping, however, socially unpleasant it may be; for it is upon such minds in large measure, that the effective search for truth depends.~ Caryl Parker Haskins It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.~ Friedrich August von Hayek It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.~ Friedrich August von Hayek I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Any man who has the brains to think and the nerve to act for the benefit of the people of the country is considered a radical by those who are content with stagnation and willing to endure disaster.~ William Randolph Hearst Goodness without wisdom always accomplished evil.~ Robert A. Heinlein Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?~ Ammon Hennacy An anarchist is anyone who doesn't need a cop to tell him what to do.~ Ammon Hennacy Force is the weapon of the weak.~ Ammon Hennacy Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!~ Patrick Henry If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ~ Frank Herbert The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous.~ W. G. Hill When we strip teachers of their professional judgment, we forfeit the educational vitality we prize. When we quell controversy for the sake of congeniality, we deprive democracy of its mentors.~ Justice Gregory Hobbs Jr. Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print