Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2004-06-30 Jun 30, 2004Whilst we assert a freedom to embrace, to profess, and to observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny an equal freedom to choose minds who have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us.~ James MadisonAnd I honor the man who is willing to sink Half his present repute for the freedom to think And, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak Will risk t’ other half for the freedom to speak.~ James Russell LowellOne's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything.~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print