Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-06-26 Jun 25, 2004Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.~ Will Durant Jun 24, 2004Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.~ Eric HofferIt is precisely for the protection of the minority that constitutional limitations exist. Majorities need no such protection. They can take care of themselves.~ Illinois Supreme CourtA society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.~ Milton Friedman 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print