Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-01-25 Jan 25, 2011The moment men obtain perfect freedom, that moment they erect a stage for the manifestation of their faults. The strong characters begin to go wrong by excess of energy; the weak by remissness of action.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLiberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.~ John F. KennedyLaws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.~ John Godfrey Saxe Jan 24, 2011Freedom rings where opinions clash.~ Adlai E. Stevenson IIWhen we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.~ Justice Charles Evans HughesThe empires of the future are the empires of the mind.~ Sir Winston Churchill Jan 21, 2011Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.~ Adolf HitlerAnd our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for pre-emptive action.~ George W. BushOnce a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.~ Harry S. Truman Jan 20, 2011...and we must consider," Austen Heller was saying unemotionally, "that since--unfortunately--we are forced to live together, the most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible. I see no ethical standard to which to measure the whole unethical conception of a State, except in the amount of time, of thought, of money, of effort and of obedience, which a society extorts from its every member. Its value and its civilization are in inverse ratio to that extortion. There is no conceivable law by which a man can be forced to work on any terms except those he chooses to set. There is no conceivable law to prevent him from setting them--just as there is none to force his employer to accept them. The freedom to agree or disagree is the foundation of our kind of society--and the freedom to strike is a part of it. I am mentioning this as a reminder to a certain Petronius from Hell’s Kitchen, an exquisite bastard who has been rather noisy lately about telling us that this strike represents a destruction of law and order.~ Ayn RandThere is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.~ General Douglas MacArthurThe boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.~ Thomas Jefferson Jan 19, 2011Knowledge is essential to freedom.~ William Ellery Channing Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print