Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-11-20 Nov 18, 2005Liberty is worth whatever the country is worth. It is by liberty that man has a country; it is by liberty he has rights.~ Henry GilesThis freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.~ Robert Earl HaydenThe greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.~ William Havard Nov 17, 2005Every State is known by the rights it maintains.~ Harold J. LaskiThe essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.~ Ludwig Von MisesProsperity or egalitarianism – you have to choose. I favor freedom – you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.~ Marios Vargas Llosa Nov 16, 2005Every great historic change has been based on nonconformity, has been bought either with the blood or with the reputation of nonconformists.~ Ben ShahnThe American notion of freedom transcended the political realm and in fact extended to every major category of human relationships, including those between employer and employee, clergyman and layman, husband and wife, parent and child, public official and citizen. Americans believed that, as of July 4, 1776, all men were created equal, and that any impairment of a man’s equality was destructive of his liberty also.~ David M. PotterThe essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.~ Eleanor Holmes Norton Nov 15, 2005Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.~ Eric HofferWhat light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon, where the chained thoughts die with their pinions pressed against the hingeless doors.~ Robert G. IngersollNo man shall rule over me with my consent. I will rule over no man.~ William Lloyd Garrison Nov 14, 2005Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority.~ Wyoming Declaration of Rights Art. I, Sec. 7The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.~ George WillAmerica is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom -- is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.~ Woodrow Wilson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print