Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-07-14 Jul 14, 2010The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?~ Emma GoldmanNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.~ Margaret MeadIntellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.~ Mikhail A. Bakunin Jul 13, 2010Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.~ John MiltonHereditary bondsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?~ Lord ByronThe liberty of the people, he says, whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty. [Lat., Libertas, inquit, populi quem regna coercent, Libertate perit.]~ Lucanus Jul 12, 2010Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!~ Alexander PopeBetter shun the bait than struggle in the snare.~ John DrydenOne can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.~ Leonardo da Vinci Jul 9, 2010Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-LyttonRepublics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.~ Epes SargentNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jul 8, 2010Freedom is the greatest fruit of self-sufficiency.~ EpicurusI can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.~ Grover ClevelandIt is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.~ James Madison Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print