Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-01-08 Jan 8, 2025The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.~ William HazlittLiberty is quite as much a moral as a political growth,--the result of free individual action, energy, and independence.~ Samuel SmilesSome writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.~ Thomas Paine Jan 7, 2025There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.~ Murray N. RothbardMy definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.~ Adlai E. Stevenson IIPersonal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Jan 6, 2025Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.~ Alan BloomWithout freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.~ Benjamin FranklinI shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.~ John Adams Jan 3, 2025Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.~ Albert EinsteinFreedom is always wise.~ Alexander MeiklejohnGive me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!~ Alexander Pope 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print