Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-08-23 Aug 23, 2022But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.~ Benjamin FranklinA welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry BrowneNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.~ Hilaire Belloc 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print