Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-04-30 Apr 30, 2015A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.~ Cyril JamesLife is a gift. Freedom is a responsibility.~ Eric SchaubFreedom is like taking a bath -- you have to keep doing it every day!~ Florynce Kennedy Apr 29, 2015Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.~ Charles Caleb ColtonThere is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust.~ DemosthenesThe simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Apr 28, 2015If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito.~ Anita RoddickHow wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.~ Anne FrankNo more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin Apr 27, 2015I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.~ Albert SchweitzerAll that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund BurkeFor in a Republic, who is "the country?" Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.~ Mark Twain Apr 24, 2015There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.~ P. J. O'RourkeThe real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security.~ Robert WelchHe is free who knows how to keep in his own hand 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