Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-05-26 May 26, 2003It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.~ Benjamin FranklinAnd this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.~ John SteinbeckWe have met the enemy and he is us.~ Walt Kelly May 23, 2003There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.~ Alan K. SimpsonThere is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.~ Helen KellerThe conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.~ John Milton May 22, 2003As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham LincolnIt may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves?~ MeliansWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.~ Thomas Jefferson May 21, 2003Conform and be dull.~ James Frank DobiePatterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.~ Lawana BlackwellTrue, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry May 20, 2003It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ AeschylusNo government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.~ Edmund BurkeThe work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.~ Igor SikorskyGovernment is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.~ Sen. Phil Gramm Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print