Character Quote by Edmund Burke

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds;…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are…

— Edmund Burke

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the…

— Walter Lippmann

Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with…

— William Ellery Channing

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the…

— Marcus Aurelius

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

It is a law woven into the nature of man, attested by history, by science, by literature and art, and by dally experience, that…

— Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world,…

— Thomas Hobbes

... we disallow papistical doctrines of free will, of works of supererogation, of merits, of the necessity of auricular confession, and satisfaction to God-wards.

— Robert Ferrar

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and…

— Simone Weil