Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-05-15 May 15, 2007All men having power ought to be mistrusted.~ James MadisonIn view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.~ John Marshall HarlanThere are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.~ Joseph Joubert May 14, 2007In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.~ Charles de GaulleThe average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.~ H. L. MenckenWhile the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin May 11, 2007You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.~ Clarence S. DarrowWhere the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?~ Niccolo MachiavelliFor what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?~ Ralph Waldo Emerson May 10, 2007Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.~ Thomas JeffersonMere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.~ Earl WarrenWhat our country deserves from everyone who enjoys its fruits and freedoms is a little more gratitude -- and a lot less greed.~ Michelle Malkin May 9, 2007Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.~ John F. KennedyFor good or evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.~ Joyce CaryWhenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.~ William Godwin Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print