Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [461-471] of 471 Independence quotesIndependence QuotesIndependence Previous 20 quotes I want for our country enough laws to restrain me from injuring others, so that these laws will also restrain others from injuring me. I want enough government, with enough constitutional safeguards, so that this necessary minimum of laws will be applied equitably to everybody, and will be binding on the rulers as well as those ruled. Beyond that I want neither laws nor government to be imposed on our people as a means or with the excuse of protecting us from catching cold, or of seeing that we raise the right kind of crops, or of forcing us to live in the right kind of houses or neighborhoods, or of compelling us to save money or to spend it, or of telling us when or whether we can pray. I do not want government or laws designed for any other form of welfarism or paternalism, based on the premise that government knows best and can run our lives better than we can run them ourselves. And my concept of freedom, and of its overwhelming importance, is implicit in these aspirations and ideals.~ Robert Welch If the true freedom of the press is to decide for itself what to publish and when to publish it, the true responsibility of the press must be to assert and defend that freedom… What the press in America needs is less inhibition, not more restraint.~ Tom Wicker Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.~ Elie Wiesel There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.~ Elie Wiesel Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.~ Oscar Wilde The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.~ Walter E. Williams Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.~ Walter E. Williams The thirteen States are thirteen Sovereignties.~ James Wilson Man free, man working for himself, with choice of time, place, and object.~ William Wordsworth A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him.~ Frank Lloyd Wright I am thought. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel. Yet I create Beauty for the eyes, Music for the ears, Love for the heart. They, ignorant of their ignorance, call me cold. Barren of Sight. Barren of Sound. Barren of Feeling. But it is I who am from which all comes. Given to the ungrateful. Unseen. Unheard. Unfelt.~ Peter Zarlenga Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print