Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-03-09 Mar 9, 2010The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.~ Alexander Ivanovich HerzenTrue, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.~ Antoine de Saint-ExupéryWhile democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes Mar 8, 2010The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.~ Thomas SzaszIf you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom BraunThe first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.~ William James 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print