Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-03-17 Mar 17, 2010Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.~ Robert SoutheyAll we have of freedom--all we use or know-- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.~ Rudyard KiplingLiberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.~ Samuel Smiles 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print