Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-04-08 Apr 8, 2010What luck for the rulers that men do not think.~ Adolf HitlerThe uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.~ Ayn RandThis report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.~ Sir Winston Churchill Apr 7, 2010A man should be upright, not be kept upright.~ Marcus Aurelius AntoninusYou ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.~ Alan PatonYield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.~ Virgil Apr 6, 2010Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.~ Jeremy BenthamThat is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.~ C. S. LewisAt the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.~ Robert F. Kennedy Apr 5, 2010The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.~ Leo Nikolaevich TolstoiWhereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.~ Walter LippmannEnslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.~ William Lloyd Garrison Apr 2, 2010Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.~ Edmund BurkeThe liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him.~ Herbert SpencerThere is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.~ John Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print