Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-01-02 Jan 2, 2025Only the educated are free.~ EpictetusThe freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack… These actions apparently arise from a view that our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid; that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals.~ American Library AssociationIt is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.~ Voltaire Jan 1, 2025Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroShow me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with so many reasons why And there, but for fortune, go you or I.~ Phil Ochs“For your own good” is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction. ~ Janet Frame Dec 31, 2024No one is free who is not master of himself.~ EpictetusMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaWho then is free? The wise man who can command himself.~ Horace Dec 30, 2024And 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 MacaulayI do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.~ Thomas PaineLiberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.~ William Allen White Dec 27, 2024Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.~ Herbert SpencerProclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.~ Liberty BellWhat light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon, where the chained thoughts die with their pinions pressed against the hingeless doors.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print