Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-09-10 Sep 10, 2025Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonYou must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right.~ Robert E. LeeIntellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Sep 9, 2025Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.~ John LockeThis, then, is freedom in the external life of man -- that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.~ Ludwig von MisesIt must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power.~ Richard Henry Lee Sep 8, 2025All men are created equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety.~ George MasonHe alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIndividuality is freedom lived.~ John Dos Passos Sep 5, 2025Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaPatterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.~ Lawana BlackwellHe that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel Butler Sep 4, 2025It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.~ Mark TwainThen liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.~ William CowperMake men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print