Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-07-17 Jul 16, 2010Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.~ Alphonse de LamartineO freedom, what liberties are taken in thy name!~ Daniel GeorgeA free society can exist only when public spirit is balanced by an equal inclination of men to mind their own business.~ Edward A. Shils Jul 15, 2010The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy.~ William HazlittHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.~ MolièreHad the states been despoiled of their sovereignty by the generality of the preamble, and had the Federal Government been endowed with whatever they should judge to be instrumental towards the union, justice, tranquility, common defence, general welfare, and the preservation of liberty, nothing could have been more frivolous than an enumeration of powers.~ Virginia’s General Assembly 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print