Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-12-22 Dec 22, 2003Character is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image.~ Alan KeyesIt behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others.~ Thomas Jefferson Dec 19, 2003No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah ArendtDriven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.~ Samuel AdamsAll growth, including political growth, is the result of risk-taking.~ Jude WanniskiFortune helps the brave.~ Publius Terentius Afer Dec 18, 2003It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.~ Oliver CromwellIndividual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.~ John Quincy AdamsDestiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.~ Aeschylus Dec 17, 2003The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.~ William Ellery ChanningWhoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...~ CatoThe theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone’s account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Dec 16, 2003Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroGod grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.~ Daniel WebsterLiberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.~ Florence Ellinwood AllenThe worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart Mill Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print