Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-05-06 May 6, 2005It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.~ Friedrich August von HayekFree societies…are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom’s existence.~ Salman RushdieLiberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.~ Thomas Jefferson May 5, 2005Jim Creechan, a University of Alberta sociologist, said some of the love of guns may have its roots in Alberta's pervasive free-enterprise model of behaviour. 'It's the whole idea that the individual is more important than the collective.'~ Alanna MitchellIt is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.~ Samuel AdamsI think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be rather for the security of the individual than of the mass, and that our chiefest care must be to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority, to prevent the claims of the few from being trampled under foot by the caprice or passion of the many.~ Sir Richard John Cartwright May 4, 2005I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth – matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.~ James BryceWhy, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here... Americans just want us to solve America's problems of health and safety -- and not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified.~ Sen. John GlennVideo meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)~ Ovid May 3, 2005Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.~ Thomas JeffersonAll in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.~ Joseph SobranThe ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.~ Voltaire May 2, 2005Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.~ Jay LenoEither you are with us or you are with the terrorists.~ George W. BushWe can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans...~ Bill Clinton Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print