Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms.  They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice."

~ Charles T. Sprading  

"Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"The forum [is] an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously."

~ Anacharsis  

"We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games."

~ Lou Erickson  

"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare."

~ William D. Arnot  

"The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation."

~ William Shakespeare