Authority Quote by Henry David Thoreau

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power,…

— Henry David Thoreau

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

— Horace

Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself.

— Horace

It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too…

— George Washington

“First, societies lacking full religious liberty lack a critical restriction on state power. When citizens are free to have an ultimate commitment to something…

— Timothy Shah

There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the…

— Aristotle

All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free

— Voltaire

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life and…

— Salvador de Madariaga

It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship of God,…

— Joseph Story

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.

— Hudson Taylor

“At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that can become…

— Enza Vita

This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.

— Ludwig von Mises