Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-04-30 Apr 30, 2018There never was a good war," said Franklin. There have indeed been many wars in which a good man must take part, and take part with grave gladness to die if need be, a willing sacrifice, thankful to give life for what is dearer than life, and happy that even by death in war he is serving the cause of peace. But if a war be undertaken for the most righteous end, before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.~ Charles Eliot NortonWhen the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you.~ Gaius Julius CaesarThe people must fight for their laws as for their walls.~ Heraclitus Apr 27, 2018The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.~ Franklin D. RooseveltWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual & surest support?~ James MadisonIf a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.~ Thomas Jefferson Apr 26, 2018[The founding fathers] conferred, as against the Government, the right to be left alone -- the right most valued by civilized men.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisWhat is freedom? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any restraint, to any chance.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham Sumner Apr 25, 2018Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiThe right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.~ Mikhail A. BakuninIndividualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights ...~ Nathaniel Branden Apr 24, 2018[F]or everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.~ Lysander SpoonerWhat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.~ Thomas JeffersonSelf-defense is a part of the law of nature; nor can it be denied the community, even against the king himself.~ William Barclay Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print