Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2025-03-04 Mar 4, 2025Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.~ CatoMankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips, but few in their mind.~ Dante AlighieriGovernment has no other end than the preservation of property.~ John Locke Mar 3, 2025Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!~ Frederick DouglassThe very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.~ Justice Hugo L. BlackThe framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.~ Justice William O. Douglas Feb 28, 2025Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.~ Henry St. JohnIntellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.~ James BillingtonIt is incorrect to think of liberty as synonymous with unrestrained action. Liberty does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the liberty of a single human being. To argue contrarily is to claim that liberty can be composed of liberty negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the liberty of others is the exercise of license, not liberty. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of liberty. Ideally, government would restrain license, not indulge in it; make it difficult, not easy; disgraceful, not popular. A government that does otherwise is licentious, not liberal.~ Leonard E. Read Feb 27, 2025No man escapes When freedom fails, The best men rot in filthy jails; And they who cried: “Appease, Appease!” Are hanged by men they tried to please.~ Hiram MannThe freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.~ Matthew ArnoldIndependence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.~ Thomas Paine Feb 26, 2025Liberty is always unfinished business.~ American Civil Liberties UnionThere is no way; we make the road by walking it.~ Antonio MachadoEternal vigilence is the price of liberty.~ Wendell Phillips Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print