Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-08-22 Aug 22, 2022That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.~ Sir William BlackstoneThe tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants.~ Bertrand Barere de VieuzacOnly reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.~ Clive Bell Aug 19, 2022The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.~ Frederic BastiatExperience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisWho would be free themselves must strike the blow.~ Lord Byron Aug 18, 2022Unjust rule never abides continually.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Disobedience or evasion of a constitutional mandate may not be tolerated, even though such disobedience may, at least temporarily, promote in some respects the best interests of the public.~ State v. Board of Examiners Aug 17, 2022Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisA free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.~ Leon BlumI wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings,—from you as me.~ Lord Byron Aug 16, 2022Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.~ Frederic BastiatFreedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.~ Mikhail A. BakuninThose who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.~ Isaiah Berlin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print