Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-05-07 May 7, 2015Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.~ Mark TwainParties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them.~ Elbert HubbardI cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it.~ Eric Schaub May 6, 2015He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.~ Thomas PaineIndependence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it -- that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.~ Ayn RandWhen liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.~ Dorothy Thompson May 5, 2015It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.~ Blaise PascalThe objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.~ Clarence S. DarrowThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. ~ Frederick Douglass May 4, 2015Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.~ Hugh PratherTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.~ Robert Louis StevensonThen what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves.~ Friedrich Nietzsche May 1, 2015The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.~ Friedrich DurrenmattNo man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore our belief in our own guidance.~ Henry MillerIndividuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.~ Jean Paul Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print