Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-11-22 Nov 22, 2005To deny freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.~ James Anthony FroudeFreedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroNone who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck Nov 21, 2005Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.~ Herbert SpencerIrreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.~ Mark TwainAll men have equal rights to liberty, to their property, and to the protection of the laws.~ VoltaireFreedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.~ Wendell L. Willkie 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print