Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 284 Respect quotesRespect QuotesRespect Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.~ Jimmy Carter The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.~ Jimmy Carter Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins. ~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.~ William Ellery Channing Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.~ John Jay Chapman Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.~ Lydia M. Child Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.~ Rufus Choate Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.~ Sir Winston Churchill Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.~ Sir Winston Churchill The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.~ Bill Clinton Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human.~ John Cogley A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.~ Henry Steele Commager Nobody should be compelled to respect an ideology that doesn’t respect them.~ Pat Condell Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will affect us.~ Steven R. Covey One of the problems that the marijuana reform movement consistently faces is that everyone wants to talk about what marijuana does, but no one ever wants to look at what marijuana prohibition does. Marijuana never kicks down your door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could.~ Richard Cowan Morality, and the ideal of freedom which is the political expression of morality, are not the property of a given party or group, but a value that is fundamentally and universally human... No people will be truly free till all are free.~ Benedetto Croce You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.~ Clarence S. Darrow Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print