Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2009-07-10 Jul 10, 2009Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George WashingtonWhen you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.~ Ronald ReaganFreedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.~ Theodore Roosevelt Jul 9, 2009The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.~ Whittaker ChambersAbsolute freedom does not exist; what does exist is the freedom to choose anything you like and then commit yourself to that decision.~ Paulo Coelho...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Jul 8, 2009The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.~ Henry David ThoreauThe most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo.~ H. L. MenckenI have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Jul 7, 2009It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.~ Andrew JacksonTo come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend, and once you become his friend, all his defences come down. Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise.~ Tokugawa IeyasuEternal vigilance is the price of liberty.~ Wendell Phillips Jul 6, 2009America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.~ Abraham LincolnLiberty is not a right but a duty.~ Ezra PoundFreedom is like taking a bath -- you have to keep doing it every day!~ Florynce Kennedy Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print