“Conservatives defend freedom not because they believe in the right to do as you please, but because freedom is the precondition for virtue. It is only when people choose freely that they can choose the good. Without freedom there is no virtue: A coerced virtue is no virtue at all.”
– Dinesh D’Souza, Letters to a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘freedom’
February 22, 2009
Dinesh D’Souza on Freedom & Virtue
February 14, 2009
William Pitt on the Loss of Freedom
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.”
– William Pitt in the House of Commons, 18 November 1783
February 14, 2009
Milton Friedman on Equality
“A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.”
– Milton Friedman, Free to Choose
February 14, 2009
John Adams on Government
“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.”
– John Adams, Notes for an Oration at Braintree (1772)
June 28, 2007
John Jay on Government
“Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government; and it is equally undeniable that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights, in order to vest it with requisite powers.”
– John Jay, The Federalist, No. 2
June 27, 2007
Donald Miller on Happiness
“…the times in my life when I have been most happy haven’t been the times when I’ve had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I’ve been in love or in community or right with people.”
– Donald Miller, Searching for God Knows What, chapter 1
June 27, 2007
George Washington on the Union
“Your Union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.”
– George Washington, Farewell Address, 19 September 1796
