Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-08-09 Aug 9, 2010The man is free who is protected from injury.~ Daniel WebsterBy liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.~ Lord Acton Aug 6, 2010Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.~ John Philpot CurranA day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.~ Joseph AddisonFor Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son, Though baffled oft is ever won.~ Lord Byron Aug 5, 2010Better to starve free than be a fat slave.~ AesopAs government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.~ Judge Robert BorkHe is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.~ William Cowper Aug 4, 2010A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.~ EpicurusFreedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.~ George WillO freedom, first delight of human kind!~ John Dryden Aug 3, 2010The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.~ Abraham CowleyBy academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.~ Albert EinsteinLiberty, without wisdom, is license.~ Edmund Burke Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print