Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2006-01-11 Jan 11, 2006We all know our duty better than we discharge it.~ John RandolphThen what is freedom? It is the will to be responsible to ourselves.~ Friedrich NietzscheMy father taught that the only helping hand you're ever going to be able to rely on is the one at the end of your sleeve.~ J. C. Watts, Jr. Jan 10, 2006He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch SpinozaNothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.~ James BaldwinWe have plenty of freedom in this country but not a great deal of independence.~ John W. Raper Jan 9, 2006The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.~ Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIf you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito.~ Anita RoddickThe safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.~ Voltaire Jan 6, 2006Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.~ Hugh PratherDon't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.~ Mark TwainA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.~ George Bernard Shaw Jan 5, 2006The 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.~ Ludwig Von MisesI believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air -- that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.~ H. L. MenckenThe price of freedom is eternal vigilance.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print