Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-04-22 Apr 22, 2010The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.~ Thomas JeffersonI have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.~ Thomas JeffersonIf a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.~ Thomas Jefferson 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print