Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-02-27 Feb 27, 2003The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.~ Erik H. EriksonIf you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom BraunNone are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Feb 26, 2003Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.~ William PittYou can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.~ Billie HolidayThere is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.~ Charles-Louis de Secondat Feb 25, 2003Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.~ Benjamin DisraeliWhatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.~ Neil A. McDonald Feb 24, 2003The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.~ Justice William O. DouglasIf a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.~ W. Somerset Maugham Feb 21, 2003The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.~ Justice Benjamin CardozoThe cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.~ W. E. B. Du BoisLiberation is not deliverance.~ Victor Hugo Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print