Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-01-28 Jan 28, 2014Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.~ Rosa LuxemburgOur own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.~ Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIt behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.~ Thomas Jefferson Jan 27, 2014Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.~ EpictetusMan is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.~ Jean-Paul SartreA right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.~ Ramsey Clark Jan 24, 2014For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?~ C. S. LewisMankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.~ Dante AlighieriAll authority is quite degrading.~ Oscar Wilde Jan 23, 2014The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.~ Father Robert F. CaponIt is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become prey to the active. The conditions upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.~ John Philpot Curran[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.~ Mark Twain Jan 22, 2014When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine.~ Bertrand RussellThose in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.~ Eric HofferHe is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.~ Salvador De Madariaga Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print