Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated."

~ Saul Bellow  

"The decidedly Christian nature of these prayers must not be dismissed as the relic of a time when our Nation was less pluralistic than it is today. Congress continues to permit its appointed and visiting chaplains to express themselves in a religious idiom. … To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures … and the courts … to act as … censors of religious speech. … Government may not mandate a civic religion that stifles any but the most generic reference to the sacred any more than it may prescribe a religious orthodoxy …"

~ Justice Anthony Kennedy  

"We even had to pass a special law in the Congress just a few weeks ago to allow student prayer groups the same access to school rooms after classes that a Young Marxist Society … would already enjoy."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty."

~ Daniel Webster  

"Speak honestly, and the truth will make itself known."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"

~ John Adams  

"There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."

~ George Herbert  

"There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth."

~ George Jacob Holyoake