Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-02-20 Feb 20, 2003Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant.~ Clint EastwoodPolitical repression consists of government action which grossly discriminates against persons or organizations viewed as presenting a fundamental challenge to existing power relationships or key governmental policies, because of their perceived political beliefs.~ Robert Justin Goldstein 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print