Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-03-02 Mar 2, 2005When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.~ Walter LippmannAn unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure.~ Mark Van DorenThe problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Mar 1, 2005What is possible for me is possible for you.~ Frederick DouglassLose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.~ Robert A. Heinlein Feb 28, 2005By a Declaration, Liberty is born. With Courage she is nourished, and with unceasing Commitment she is guarded.~ Eric SchaubFreedom is not a gift received from the State or leader, but a possession to be won every day by the effort of each and the union of all.~ Albert CamusThose who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.~ Thomas Paine Feb 25, 2005Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.~ Gotthold Ephraim LessingEverything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry MillerThe objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.~ H. L. Mencken Feb 24, 2005At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....~ Lord ActonI long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.~ Helen KellerThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.~ Henry David Thoreau Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print