Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [401-420] of 471 Independence quotesIndependence QuotesIndependence Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.~ Igor Sikorsky In a free society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether physical coercion -- violence against persons or property -- occurs. There is no right not to be offended by words, actions or symbols.~ Richard E. Sincere, Jr. You must believe in free will; there is no choice.~ Isaac Bashevis Singer Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.~ B. F. Skinner Liberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.~ Samuel Smiles The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.~ Adam Smith It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.~ Adam Smith By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.~ Adam Smith As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant of the people... The Bill of Rights does not grant rights to the people, such that its repeal would legitimately confer upon government the powers otherwise proscribed. The Bill of Rights is the list of the fundamental, inalienable rights, endowed in man by his Creator, that define what it means to be a free and independent people, the rights which must exist to ensure that government governs only with the consent of the people.~ Jeffrey R. Snyder I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.~ Socrates Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market values into all areas of life is endangering our open and democratic society. The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.~ George Soros Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.~ Baruch Spinoza He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch Spinoza If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.~ Lysander Spooner They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way.~ Casey Stengel To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.~ Robert Louis Stevenson If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham Sumner If I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham Sumner It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.~ R. H. Tawney Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.~ A. J. P. Taylor Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print