Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-05-28 May 28, 2003The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called “society,” or the “nation,” which is only a collection of individuals.~ Emma GoldmanNo one can be free unless he is independent... In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence...~ Maria MontessoriNo free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.~ Wendell Phillips May 27, 2003Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.~ Calvin CoolidgeWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.~ Mark TwainThe house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print