Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-01-04 Jan 4, 2006No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.~ General Douglas MacArthurThose who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.~ Eric HofferYou can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.~ Robert A. Heinlein Jan 2, 2006These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated.~ Thomas PaineI cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it.~ Eric SchaubThose who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.~ Frederick DouglassThe time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.~ George WashingtonFreedom lies in being bold.~ Robert FrostIt does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.~ Samuel Adams Dec 30, 2005I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.~ Ulysses S. GrantAn eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiPeace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Dec 29, 2005There is no way to peace; peace is the way.~ A. J. MusteThose who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.~ John F. KennedyThere was never a good war, or a bad peace.~ Benjamin Franklin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print