Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-11-29 Nov 29, 2012Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.~ Josef Stalin Nov 28, 2012Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature. It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we can preserve no other.~ John LockeThe average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to complacency; from complaceny to apathy; from apathy to dependence; from dependency back again into bondage.~ Sir Alex Fraser Tytler Nov 27, 2012An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.~ Thomas JeffersonWhen the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.~ Benjamin FranklinWhen truth is divided, errors multiply.~ Eli Siegel Nov 26, 2012If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.~ Daniel WebsterThe love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.~ John DrydenO liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.~ Sir Edward Dyer Nov 23, 2012The process of liberation is continuous.~ Eric SchaubLiberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.~ H. L. MenckenLiberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field.~ Wendell Phillips Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print