Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-04-02 Apr 2, 2007It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.~ Adam SmithIt is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.~ Frederic BastiatThe system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek Mar 30, 2007By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations...a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One world government is inevitable.~ Karl WojtylaFreedom demands that we struggle for an extension of both equality and free expression, not regard one as inimical to the other.~ Kenan MalikSay what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it absolutely vile!~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Mar 29, 2007Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.~ Jean-Paul SartrePsychologically, it is important to understand that the simple fact of being interviewed and investigated has a coercive influence. As soon as a man is under cross-examination, he may become paralyzed by the procedure and find himself confessing to deeds he never did. In a country where the urge to investigate spreads, suspicion and insecurity grow.~ Joost A. MerlooNo one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.~ Rev. Jesse Jackson Mar 28, 2007To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.~ Eric HofferRadicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.~ Frank HerbertThe interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez Mar 27, 2007We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.~ Benjamin WhichcoteFreedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.~ C. Wright MillsWhen liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.~ Dorothy Thompson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print