Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-04-15 Apr 15, 2021Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.~ Archibald MacLeishWhen we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.~ Justice Charles Evans HughesFreedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson Apr 14, 2021To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large.~ AristotleThere is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are “just” because the law makes them so.~ Frederic BastiatTrue liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property, for property is the only crystallized form of free faculties...The whole meaning of socialism is a systematic glorification of force... No literary phrases about social organisms are potent enough to evaporate the individual, who is the prime, indispensable, irreducible element.~ Auberon Herbert Apr 13, 2021Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.~ John Kenneth GalbraithBear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.~ Thomas JeffersonThe Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.~ Walter Lippmann Apr 12, 2021If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George WashingtonThe justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.~ Henry Steele CommagerMen are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Apr 9, 2021I believe the State exists for the development of individual lives, not individuals for the development of the state.~ Julian HuxleyIt is, therefore, a fact of law and of practical necessity that individuals are responsible for their own personal safety, and that of their loved ones. Police protection must be recognized for what it is: only an auxiliary general deterrent.~ Peter Alan KaslerPity the poor opponents of the right to keep and bear arms! They must distrust just everybody except criminals and except the tyrant to whom they concede the armed monopoly of their protection.~ Pierre Lemieux Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print