Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-10-06 Oct 6, 2025He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.~ Epictetus[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.~ James MadisonLiberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil Oct 3, 2025A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ Justice William O. DouglasI have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayWhenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.~ Wendell L. Willkie Oct 2, 2025Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroLiberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.~ E. B. WhiteDiscipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.~ Maria Montessori Oct 1, 2025The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless.~ AristotleTo open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.~ Quintus EnniusThe truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.~ R. D. Laing Sep 30, 2025But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies.~ Alan WattsThere is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom for in that way one captures volition itself.~ Jean-Jacques RousseauNone who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print