Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Liberty is a slow fruit."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained."

~ Russell Kirk  

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"You can fool some of the people all of the time,
and all of the people some of the time, and that's good enough."

~ Dr. Edwin Vieira  

"When it is a duty to worship the sun
it is pretty sure to be a crime
to examine the laws of heat."

~ John Viscount Morley  

"Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery."

~ Mikhail A. Bakunin  

"It is the duty of the officials to prevent or suppress the threatened disorder with a firm hand instead of timidly yielding to threats…. Surely a speaker ought not to be suppressed because his opponents propose to use violence. It is they who should suffer from their lawlessness, not he."

~ American Bar Association  

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. "

~ Frederick Douglass  

"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves."

~ Harriet Tubman  

"The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect.
The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think,
and next to the right to think is the right
to express that thought without fear."

~ Helen H. Gardner  

"Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity.
They are the vital process of policy among free men."

~ Herbert Hoover  

"Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and,
when it cannot take a long breath,
laws are girdled too tight."

~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher