Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"[Socialism] is a creed even more denigrating than Catholicism,
but it offers more tangible bribes for its acceptance."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"We're too great a nation to allow the evildoers to affect our soul."

~ George W. Bush  

"People constantly speak of 'the government'
doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it.
But the government is really nothing but a group of men,
and usually they are very inferior men."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The liberty of thinking and publishing
whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances,
is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice.
On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils."

~ Pope Leo XIII  

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun
is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin."

~ Cardnial Robert Bellarmine  

"One Galileo in two thousand years is enough."

~ Pope Pius XII  

"Alas, how many have been persecuted
for the wrong of having been right?"

~ Jean-Baptiste Say  

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

~ John Viscount Morley  

"Religions are illogical primitive ignorance.
There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government."

~ Leon Trotsky  

"Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking
more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression.
This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds
are essential to the wise and considered self-government."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Persecution produced its natural effect on them.
It found them a sect; it made them a faction."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy.
The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous
to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny
if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation
does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen,
but refers to the idea we entertain of his character."

~ Charles-Louis De Secondat  

"Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought."

~ Graham Greene