Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-08-27 Aug 27, 2014Restraint of government is the true liberty and freedom of the people.~ John P. ReidThe laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.~ John Quincy AdamsThe means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.~ John Viscount Morley Aug 26, 2014Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.~ Florence Ellinwood AllenNip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.~ John Adams[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.~ John Locke Aug 25, 2014By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.~ Lord ActonThe wise learn from the experience of others, most from their own experience, and fools not at all.~ Proverb[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.~ Thomas Jefferson Aug 22, 2014Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard MitchellA nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.~ Benjamin FranklinI have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.~ Booker T. Washington Aug 21, 2014Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert EinsteinAnd I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.~ James Russell LowellIncreasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.~ Jerome D. Frank Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print