Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-01-14 Jan 12, 2026Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.~ George WashingtonI have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.~ Thomas Jefferson Jan 9, 2026A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.~ Grover ClevelandThe great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.~ Edmund BurkeThe quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable [...] There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.~ Justice Janice Brown Jan 8, 2026We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynLet me explain this. There are, fundamentally, only two causes of the progress of the nineteenth century -- the same two causes which you will find at the root of any happy, benevolent, progressive era in human history. One cause is psychological, the other existential -- or: one pertains to man's consciousness, the other to the physical conditions of his existence. The first is reason, the second is freedom. And when I say "freedom," I do not mean poetic sloppiness, such as "freedom from want" or "freedom from fear" or "freedom from the necessity of earning a living." I mean "freedom from compulsion -- freedom from rule by physical force." Which means: political freedom. ~ Ayn RandThe doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.~ New Hampshire Constitution Previous week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print