Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Not to be, but to seem, virtuous -- it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success."

~ Orison Swett Marden  

"One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences."

~ O. A. Battista  

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character."

~ Henry Clay  

"Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live as well as think."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down."

~ Henry Brooks Adams  

"...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back."

~ Robert E. Lee  

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

~ Thomas Sowell