Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2026-03-18 Mar 18, 2026You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that's good enough.~ Dr. Edwin VieiraWhen it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.~ John Viscount MorleyIntellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.~ Mikhail A. Bakunin Mar 17, 2026It is the duty of the officials to prevent or suppress the threatened disorder with a firm hand instead of timidly yielding to threats…. Surely a speaker ought not to be suppressed because his opponents propose to use violence. It is they who should suffer from their lawlessness, not he.~ American Bar AssociationThose who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. ~ Frederick DouglassI freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves.~ Harriet Tubman Mar 16, 2026The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.~ Helen H. GardnerHonest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.~ Herbert HooverLiberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Mar 13, 2026Better to starve free than be a fat slave.~ AesopI do not like the pretensions of Government -- the grounds on which it demands my obedience -- to be pitched too high. I don't like the medicine-man's magical pretensions nor the Bourbon's Divine Right. This is not solely because I disbelieve in magic and in Bossuet's Politique. I believe in God, but I detest theocracy. For every Government consists of mere men and is, strictly viewed, a makeshift; if it adds to its commands 'Thus saith the Lord', it lies, and lies dangerously. On just the same ground I dread government in the name of science. That is how tyrannies come in. In every age the men who want us under their thumb, if they have any sense, will put forward the particular pretension which the hopes and fears of that age render most potent. They 'cash in'. It has been magic, it has been Christianity. Now it will certainly be science. Perhaps the real scientists may not think much of the tyrants' 'science'-- they didn't think much of Hitler's racial theories or Stalin's biology. But they can be muzzled.~ C. S. LewisSo free we seem, so fettered fast we are.~ Robert Browning Mar 12, 2026The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.~ Noah WebsterFor the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.~ Andrew BernsteinEasier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.~ Robert Southey Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print