Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-03-22 Mar 22, 2010Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.~ Daniel WebsterAuthority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain.~ Samuel ButlerThe great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.~ Adolf Hitler Mar 19, 2010Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.~ Will Rogers'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.~ William CowperProgress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.~ William Ellery Channing Mar 18, 2010As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayThough the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.~ Thomas PaineThe secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.~ Thucydides 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print