Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-08-13 Aug 13, 2004You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.~ Florynce KennedyIf you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.~ George Bernard ShawDisobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress had been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.~ Oscar Wilde Aug 12, 2004There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiGood men must not obey the laws too well.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Aug 11, 2004Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.~ Chinese ProverbOrder is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within.~ José Ortega y GassetLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no court, can even do much to help it.~ Judge Learned Hand Aug 10, 2004The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.~ Edmund BurkeFreedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.~ John G. DiefenbakerThis, then, is freedom in the external life of man -- that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.~ Ludwig von Mises Aug 9, 2004The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.~ Albert CamusSecurity is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.~ Helen Keller[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print