Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-01-30 Jan 30, 2014Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough; there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.~ John Stuart MillIt is a maxim among lawyers that whatever hath been done before may be done again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions, and the judges never fail of directing them accordingly.~ Jonathan SwiftYou do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered.~ Lyndon B. Johnson Jan 29, 2014As for adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone.~ Henry David ThoreauLet everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.~ Thomas Jefferson 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print