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Your Quotes for 4 July 2005 - Independence

The members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting at Philadelphia on this day in 1776, agreed to the text of the Declaration of Independence and formally began the great American experiment. Let us remember, and be thankful for, all those who have committed themselves to keeping independence and freedom alive. And let us each be prepared to guard liberty for the generations to come.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
     - Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805 - 1859

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
     - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
     - Carl Rogers, 1902 -1987

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
     - Edmund Burke, 1728 - 1797

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its power and authority was derived, and treats him accordingly.
     - Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
     - Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC - AD 65

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