Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-03-16 Mar 16, 2010Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.~ Louis Charles Alfred de MussetThe recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroLet men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.~ Mencius Mar 15, 2010Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.~ Henry St. JohnThere can be no prescription old enough to supersede the Law of Nature and the grant of God Almighty, who has given to all men a natural right to be free, and they have it ordinarily in their power to make themselves so, if they please.~ James OtisKnow ye not who would be free themselves must strike the blow? by their right arms the conquest must be wrought?~ Lord Byron Mar 12, 2010A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.~ Sir Winston ChurchillWe have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.~ Abigail AdamsEgotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.~ Bellamy Brooks Mar 11, 2010Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.~ Lawana BlackwellTo believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiLiberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Mar 10, 2010No one is free who is not master of himself.~ EpictetusAsk the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.~ Reverend Martin NiemoellerThe spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the rights of others, and an unwillingness that any man, whether high or low, should be wronged and trampled under foot.~ William Ellery Channing 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print