Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance."

~ Edgar J. Mohn

~ Michel De Montaigne  

"Truth is incontrovertible,
ignorance can deride it,
panic may resent it,
malice may destroy it,
but there it is."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments
for a view that I hold dear."

~ Daniel Dennett  

~ Justice Clarence Thomas  

"If there is any principle
of the Constitution
that more imperatively calls
for attachment than any other
it is the principle of free thought --
not free thought for those
who agree with us
but freedom for the thought
that we hate."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people
forget that certain other sets of people are human."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless."

~ B. F. Skinner  

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton  

"It is not laissez-faire that has failed.
That would be an ill day for men.
What has failed is the courage
to see what is true and
speak it to the people,
to point to the true remedies."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"The first casualty when war comes is truth."

~ Hiram W. Johnson