Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-02-03 Feb 3, 2025The basis of a democratic state is liberty.~ AristotleThe right of property is the guardian of every other right, and to deprive the people of this, is in fact to deprive them of their liberty.~ Arthur LeeLiberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.~ Daniel Webster Jan 31, 2025The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction.~ General Douglas MacArthurWhen individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelLiberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.~ Harry Emerson Fosdick Jan 30, 2025And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.~ Marianne WilliamsonWe are not liberated until we liberate others. So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.~ Marilyn FergusonThe Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.~ Michael Badnarik Jan 29, 2025If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.~ Ronald ReaganWe must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.~ Sir Karl PopperAgriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.~ Thomas Jefferson Jan 28, 2025When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas PaineThink for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.~ VoltaireThere are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.~ W. Somerset Maugham Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print