Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty."

~ Daniel Webster  

"Speak honestly, and the truth will make itself known."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"

~ John Adams  

"There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."

~ George Herbert  

"There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth."

~ George Jacob Holyoake