Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-11-23 Nov 23, 2005Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.~ Henry Steele CommagerWho are a free people? Not those over whom government is exercised, but those who live under a government so constitutionally checked and controlled that proper provision is made against its being otherwise exercised.~ John DickensonFreedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent…The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.~ John G. Diefenbaker 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print