Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-02-22 Feb 22, 2010Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.~ George WashingtonI had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.~ George WashingtonRepublicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind.~ George Washington Feb 19, 2010Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.~ Berthold AuerbachLiberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.~ James A. GarfieldHe alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feb 18, 2010There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.~ Charles KingsleyLiberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.~ Daniel WebsterFreedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.~ Friedrich Nietzsche Feb 17, 2010Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.~ Edward EverettInterwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.~ George WashingtonAll special charters of freedom must be abrogated where the universal law of freedom is to flourish.~ Heinrich Heine Feb 16, 2010America, my friends, is the only country in the world actually founded on liberty -- the only one. People went to America to be free.~ Margaret ThatcherMany politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayNo, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William Cowper Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print