Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-02-19 Feb 19, 2003Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity.~ Eric HofferJustice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Feb 18, 2003The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.~ Alexander Ivanovich HerzenBy physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Feb 17, 2003A man is either free or he is not. There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom.~ Imamu Amiri BarakaNobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.~ Malcolm XSelf-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.~ Patricia Sampson Feb 14, 2003Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerHe 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 Feb 13, 2003Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.~ James Fenimore Cooper[When] Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology, why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?~ Auguste ComteLiberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.~ David Lloyd George Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print