Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2015-07-13 Jul 13, 2015The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it, that it tolerates error in order to serve truth.~ Walter LippmannIf we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it.~ Immanuel Hermann von FichteThe purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.~ Robert Byrne Jul 10, 2015How bad do things have to get before you do something? Do they have to take away all your property? Do they have to license every activity that you want to engage in? Do they have to start throwing you on cattle cars before you say “now wait a minute, I don’t think this is a good idea.” How long is it going to be before you finally resist and say “No, I will not comply. Period!” Ask yourself now because sooner or later you are going to come to that line, and when they cross it, you’re going to say well now cross this line; ok now cross that line; ok now cross this line. Pretty soon you’re in a corner. Sooner or later you’ve got to stand your ground whether anybody else does or not. That is what liberty is all about.~ Michael BadnarikProsperity requires liberty: to be productive we must be free.~ Jarret B. Wollstein Jul 9, 2015No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.~ James MadisonThe most important political office is that of private citizen.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisAn appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.~ Sir Winston Churchill Jul 8, 2015An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackIt is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary…. The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint.~ Thomas I. EmersonYour silence gives consent.~ Plato Jul 7, 2015I swear by my life, and love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.~ Ayn RandWe are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.~ Fisher AmesAll our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.~ William Kingdon Clifford Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print