Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1261-1280] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George Washington There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate upon real favors from nation to nation.~ George Washington Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George Washington Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.~ George Washington I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.~ George Washington Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.~ George Washington The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.~ George Washington If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.~ George Washington Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.~ George Washington But 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 Watts Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.~ Alan Watts It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.~ John Wayne The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.~ Henry Grady Weaver Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.~ Henry Grady Weaver No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.~ Daniel Webster Human beings will generally exercise power when they can get it, and they will exercise it most undoubtedly in popular governments under pretense of public safety.~ Daniel Webster The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.~ Daniel Webster The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.~ Daniel Webster Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.~ Daniel Webster Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.~ Daniel Webster Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print