Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-11-22 Nov 22, 2007Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself -- and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.~ Chief JosephFreedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he is free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.~ Herbert HooverA man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.~ Woodrow Wilson Nov 21, 2007Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.~ Alexis de TocquevilleAll political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.~ Friedrich August von HayekAnd to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Nov 20, 2007The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.~ General H. Norman SchwarzkopfCount it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.~ JuvenalHypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi Nov 19, 2007The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.~ Walt WhitmanFreedom 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. WillkieIf I want to be free from any other man’s dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.~ William Graham Sumner Nov 16, 2007Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry MillerReserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.~ Hypatia of AlexandriaOf all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John Dryden Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print