Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2010-08-11 Aug 11, 2010There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well.~ Booker T. WashingtonThey make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonAs the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought.~ Tammy Bruce Aug 10, 2010To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.~ Thomas Jefferson 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print