Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-10-30 Oct 28, 2005The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.~ Adam SmithWhen we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.~ George O'Neil[A]nd obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men and of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley Oct 27, 2005We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ~ Gerald W. JohnsonWith respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.~ James MadisonThe loyalists in the beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting, in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every possible power to promote their own happiness.~ Pennsylvania Gazette Oct 26, 2005Freedom is always wise.~ Alexander MeiklejohnPolitics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon HerbertIt is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.~ Dorothy ThompsonA free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.~ Francis Picabia Oct 25, 2005No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah ArendtDiscipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.~ Maria MontessoriForce (is) the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 24, 2005It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.~ Ayn RandArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George WashingtonForce without wisdom falls of its own weight.~ Horace Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print