Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-06-23 Jun 23, 2004I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?~ D. H. LawrenceYou make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr.We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.~ Edward R. Murrow Jun 22, 2004[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.~ Milovan DjilasOf all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John DrydenFreedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.~ John Goodwin Jun 21, 2004The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.~ William Ellery ChanningIt has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.~ Benjamin DisraeliI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.~ Cato the Younger Jun 18, 2004The government of the absolute majority is but the government of the strongest interests; and when not effectively checked, is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised... [To read the Constitution is to realize that] no free system was ever farther removed from the principle that the absolute majority, without check or limitation, ought to govern.~ John C. CalhounIt is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.~ W. E. B. Du BoisPolitics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.~ Henry Brooks Adams Jun 17, 2004We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.~ Stewart L. UdallNobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.~ Rudolph J. RummelRogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.~ Alexandre Dumas Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print