Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The essence of Government is power;
and power, lodged as it must be in human hands,
will ever be liable to abuse."

~ James Madison  

"Whilst we assert a freedom
to embrace, to profess, and to observe
the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin,
we cannot deny an equal freedom to choose
minds who have not yet yielded
to the evidence which has convinced us."

~ James Madison  

"[In a republic] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions,
but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places."

~ James Monroe  

"The most serious problems of freedom of expression in our society today exist on our campuses. The assumption seems to be that the purpose of education is to induce correct opinion rather than to search for wisdom and to liberate the mind….Attitudes on campuses often presage tendencies in the larger society. If that is so with respect to freedom of expression, the erosion of principle we have seen throughout our society in recent years may be only the beginning…"

~ Benno C. Schmidt

"Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one’s own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results."

~ Donald Kennedy  

"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil
of discussion, dissent and debate."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey