Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-01-14 Jan 14, 2003There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.~ John AdamsPower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.~ Lord Acton Jan 13, 2003All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.~ Isaiah BerlinMan exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Jan 10, 2003Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.~ Alan BarthWhenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.~ Mark Twain Jan 9, 2003The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.~ Thomas JeffersonFreedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.~ Rosa Luxemburg Jan 8, 2003Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.~ D. H. LawrenceThose who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print