Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-08-09 Aug 9, 2017The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only a policeman, acting as an agent of man's self-defense, and, as such, may only resort to force only against those who start the use of force.~ Ayn RandI want a government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.~ Harry BrowneSociety is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.~ Thomas Paine Aug 8, 2017The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.~ Albert GallatinLaws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.~ Baruch SpinozaFreedom is not a fixed and possessed thing. It is a quality of life. And like action itself, it is something experienced only by individuals.~ Neil A. McDonald Aug 7, 2017I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?~ D. H. LawrenceWe demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.~ Calvin CoolidgeLiberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.~ Samuel Smiles Aug 4, 2017And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.~ Samuel AdamsDost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?~ Count Axel OxenstiernaOrder is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within.~ José Ortega y Gasset Aug 3, 2017Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.~ Albert EinsteinNo one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...~ Maria MontessoriUtopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind’s totalization may flounder.~ Thomas Molnar Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print