Quotes by Hazlitt, William

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than >>

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable >>

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. >>

Quotations about Liberty

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice >>

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwell >>

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liber >>

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

Hazlitt, William