Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2002-09-20 Sep 20, 2002Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.~ Daniel WebsterIf you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine.~ Hank WilliamsWhy doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?~ Jimmy DuranteThe right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.~ Justice William O. Douglas Sep 19, 2002Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.~ Mark TwainThe things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.~ George Bernard ShawI believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.~ H. L. Mencken Sep 18, 2002The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgment the great postulate of our democracy.~ Justice William O. DouglasA free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.~ Walter Lippmann Sep 17, 2002Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.~ John Adams Sep 16, 2002He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.~ Thomas PaineI have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print