Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-06-29 Jun 29, 2004The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.~ David ReismanIndividuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.~ Jean PaulIndividuality is freedom lived.~ John Dos Passos Jun 28, 2004Democracy…is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.~ PlatoIt is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.~ Lord ActonIn republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.~ Charles-Louis de Secondat 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print