Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-04-21 Apr 21, 2010There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.~ Archibald MacLeishThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.~ Thomas JeffersonOnly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.~ Benjamin Franklin Apr 20, 2010Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.~ George Bernard ShawIn a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.~ Walter LippmannWe cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.~ William Faulkner Apr 19, 2010Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.~ Milton FriedmanHe who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.~ Sir Francis Bacon Apr 16, 2010There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.~ Charles-Louis de Secondat'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.~ C. S. LewisThe greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.~ Edmund Burke Apr 15, 2010No one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...~ Maria MontessoriNo government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!~ Ronald ReaganGovernment is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.~ Sen. Phil Gramm Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print