Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I swear by my life, and love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself."

~ James Madison  

"Felix qui nihil debet." ("Happy is he who owes nothing.")

~ Roman Proverb  

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed."

~ Étienne de la Boétie  

"Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can."

~ John Wesley  

"The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right."

~ Mencius  

"No person was ever honored for what he received.
Honor has been the reward for what he gave."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace, or after ages of conflict and war; but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred."

~ Edward Everett  

"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having."

~ Juvenal