Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-01-06 Jan 6, 2012The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.~ Benjamin FranklinIt is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.~ Bertrand RussellThe man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also.~ Elbert Hubbard Jan 5, 2012The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.~ Abraham LincolnThey who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.~ Dr. Samuel JohnsonSo free we seem, so fettered fast we are.~ Robert Browning Jan 4, 2012We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonEvery politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.~ Thomas CooperWith devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.~ William Shakespeare Jan 3, 2012They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.~ Benjamin FranklinYou can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?~ Khalil GibranNatural liberty is the right of common upon a waste; civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure.~ William Paley Jan 2, 2012If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.~ Algernon SidneyLiberty is given by nature even to mute animals. [Lat., Liberatem natura etiam mutis animalibus datam.]~ Cornelius TacitusLiberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.~ Henry Wheeler Shaw Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print