Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-04-20 Apr 20, 2021You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.~ Clarence S. DarrowTolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.~ Joshua LiebmanEvery man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men.~ Adam Smith Apr 19, 2021Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.~ James Fenimore CooperThe only freedom deserving the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.~ John Stuart MillThere will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.~ Henry David Thoreau Apr 16, 2021If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.~ Virginia WoolfI may not agree with what you say, but to the death I will defend your right to say it.~ VoltaireWe must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.~ Walter Lippmann 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print