Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-03-05 Mar 5, 2010The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.~ John F. KennedyFreedom's soil hath only place For a free and fearless race!~ John Greenleaf WhittierPerfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.~ Josiah Gilbert Holland Mar 4, 2010Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.~ James MadisonThey can only set free men free ... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.~ James OppenheimThe wish, which ages have not yet subdued In man, to have no master save his mood.~ Lord Byron Mar 3, 2010Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.~ EpictetusHappiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.~ George WashingtonI cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.~ George Washington Mar 2, 2010If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.~ George Stillman HillardWise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.~ John RuskinTrue liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all.~ Katherine Mansfield Mar 1, 2010Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.~ Henry Brooks AdamsI am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.~ John DrydenThe cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.~ Josiah Gilbert Holland Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print