Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 284 Respect quotesRespect QuotesRespect Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do.~ Nat Hentoff What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; that is the whole Law: all the rest is interpretation.~ Hillel To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.~ Eric Hoffer One realizes that one of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.~ Eric Hoffer The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. “Painters and poets,” you say, “have always had an equal license in bold invention.” We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.~ Horace There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.~ Elbert Hubbard Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.~ Hubert H. Humphrey All children behave as well as they are treated.~ Jan Hunt I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.~ Robert G. Ingersoll The priceless heritage of our society is the unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.~ Thomas Jefferson Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.~ Thomas Jefferson I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.~ Thomas Jefferson The way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to everyone exactly the functions in which he is competent ... - To let the National Government be entrusted with the defense of the nation, and its foreign and federal relations ... - The State Governments with the Civil Rights, Laws, Police and administration of what concerns the State generally. - The Counties with the local concerns, and each ward direct the interests within itself. It is by dividing and subdividing these Republics from the great national one down through all its subordinations until it ends in the administration of everyman's farm by himself, by placing under everyone what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best.~ Thomas Jefferson An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.~ Thomas Jefferson ...truth is great and will prevail if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.~ Thomas Jefferson Every man should know that his conversations, his correspondence, and his personal life are private.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print