That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it… Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl …
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends. Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a …
Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free. Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)
Perserverance … is the very hinge of all virtues. Thomas Carlyle Author (Investor’…
Perserverance … is the very hinge of all virtues.
Thomas Carlyle
Author (Investor’s Business Daily, January 14, 1999)
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty …
Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary
Karl Marx did not abolish child labor or free the women from …
Karl Marx did not abolish child labor or free the women from working in the coal mines in England – the steam engine and modern machinery [in a semi-capitalistic system] did that. Ronald Reagan
Jan 25, 1974
A society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the …
A society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of man’s nature-is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. Ayn Rand
(1905-1982)
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. …
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra
Observe…the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the …
Observe…the intellectual precision of the Founding Fathers: they spoke of the right to *the pursuit* of happiness — *not* of the right *to* happiness. It means that a man has the right to take the actions he deems necessary to achieve his happiness; it does NOT mean that others must make him happy. Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never …
If Virtue and Knowledge are diffused among the People, they will never be enslav’d.Ã This will be their great Security. Samuel Adams
(1722-1803) – American revolutionary