Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-04-06 Apr 6, 2021The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.~ Herbert Sebastien AgarBeyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.~ Leonardo Da VinciHe is the freeman whom the truth makes free.~ William Cowper Apr 5, 2021Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end.~ Lord ActonLiberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.~ Berthold AuerbachAll that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.~ Edmund Burke Apr 2, 2021Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.~ Alan DershowitzAnd what sort of philosophical doctrine is this -- that numbers confer unlimited rights, that they take from some persons all rights over themselves, and vest these rights in others. ... How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed. ... It is not possible to suppose, without absurdity, that a man should have no rights over his own body and mind, and yet have a 1/10,000,000th share in unlimited rights over all other bodies and minds?~ Auberon HerbertYou've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.~ Florynce Kennedy Apr 1, 2021Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.~ Thomas JeffersonWe are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.~ William F. Buckley, Jr.Liberty requires restraints on popularly-elected leaders, as well as from minorities, so that the individual is protected from undue and arbitrary coercion by the state. These restraints are provided by a plurality of more or less equal and independent groups which check and balance one another's power.~ William Kornhauser Mar 31, 2021Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual’s freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority.~ Justice John Paul StevensIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.~ Noam ChomskyI believe in my right to be wrong, and still more in my right to be right.~ Owen Lattimore Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print