Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-03-14 Mar 14, 2025Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.~ Sir Francis BaconPeople demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.~ Soren KierkegaardTo preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom.~ Thomas Jefferson Mar 13, 2025The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.~ James BaldwinFreedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. It´s so hard for government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true. The fact is, bureaucracies are a problem around the world.~ Ronald ReaganThere is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Mar 12, 2025Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.~ Friedrich August von HayekIf liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.~ George Stillman HillardUnder a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison ... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.~ Henry David Thoreau Mar 11, 2025The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.~ George WillLiberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.~ Giuseppe MazziniThe literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.~ Harriet Beecher Stowe Mar 10, 2025We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.~ E. M. ForsterLaws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank HerbertThe attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.~ Joseph Sobran Mar 7, 2025The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.~ David D. FriedmanWhen liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.~ Dorothy ThompsonFreedom has never been free. Sometimes it costs everything you've got.~ Eric Schaub Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print