Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"There are no hopeless situations;
There are only men who have grown hopeless about them."

~ Clare Boothe Luce  

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

~ Elie Wiesel  

"If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us at least live so as to deserve it."

~ Immanuel Hermann von Fichte  

"A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts."

~ James Madison  

"The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit."

~ Whittaker Chambers  

"When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires."

~ Eric Schaub  

"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it."

~ Adam Smith  

"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means to push back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."

~ Henri Frederic Amiel  

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible,
but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."

~ Vincent van Gogh  

"Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart."

~ George Washington  

"I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs,
nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately,
by the grace of God."

~ Thomas Jefferson