Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 471 Independence quotesIndependence QuotesIndependence Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.~ Eric Hoffer When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.~ Eric Hoffer The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.~ Eric Hoffer If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought -- not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from bondage of irrational fear.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war. We felt, we still feel, the passion of life to it's top. In our youths, our hearts were touched with fire.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There never was an idea stated that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.~ John Hospers Things may be cheaper over the hill, but there is a cost to the community in buying over there, instead of here.~ Margaret House A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.~ Hypatia of Alexandria The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can ever help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.~ Henrik Ibsen The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.~ Henrik Ibsen The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print