Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 471 Independence quotesIndependence QuotesIndependence Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.~ Aristotle He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.~ Aristotle Hillsdale [College] forgoes government money in order to spare our students, faculty and administrators the bureaucratic interference that is the price of accepting federal financial support. ~ Larry P. Arnn Give me chastity and self-restraint, but do not give it yet.~ Saint Augustine If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.~ Sir Francis Bacon The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.~ Mikhail A. Bakunin Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.~ James Baldwin Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.~ Hosea Ballou The state tends to expand in proportion to its means of existence and to live beyond its means, and these are, in the last analysis, nothing but the substance of the people. Woe to the people that cannot limit the sphere of action of the state! Freedom, private enterprise, wealth, happiness, independence, personal dignity, all vanish.~ Frederic Bastiat Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.~ Frederic Bastiat Members of society must obey the law because they personally believe that its commands are justified.~ Judge David Bazelon Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one -- at least no one other than the participants -- is harmed by it.~ Hugo Adam Bedau [Heresy is] the dislocation of a complete and self-supporting scheme by the introduction of a novel denial of some essential part therein.~ Hilaire Belloc As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.~ Jeremy Bentham Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.~ Isaiah Berlin But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you – the social reformers – see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.~ Isaiah Berlin Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.~ Georges Bernanos In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity.~ Ambrose Bierce Whatever power you give to the good cops, goes to the bad ones, too. Never forget that.~ Phillip J. Birmingham A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the 'social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact.~ Black's Law Dictionary Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print