Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-02-05 Feb 5, 2025I heartily accept the motto, that government is best which governs least ... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe, that government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.~ Henry David ThoreauLiberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither is capable of it. There is nothing moral or immoral in the idea of it. The definition of it is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power; it can elect between objects, indifferent in point of morality, neither morally good nor morally evil. ~ John AdamsFreedom is not worth living if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that previous right.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Feb 4, 2025Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.~ Benjamin FranklinA society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.~ Bertrand de JouvenelI would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.~ Cato the Younger 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print