Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-01-27 Jan 25, 2002If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?~ Herbert SpencerPerhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.~ James Madison Jan 24, 2002He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country.~ John WitherspoonIndependence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.~ Thomas Paine Jan 23, 2002Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.~ Henry Steele CommagerIf the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.~ Terence McKenna Jan 22, 2002A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him.~ Frank Lloyd WrightNothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.~ John Keats Jan 21, 2002Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund BurkeThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.~ Edmund Burke Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print