Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The idea of creating systems designed to threaten, coerce, and kill,
and to imbue such agencies with principled legitimacy, and not expect
them to lead to wars, genocides, and other tyrannical practices,
expresses an innocence we can no longer afford to indulge."

~ Butler D. Shaffer  

"Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past,
by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.
Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control...
to be locked into a sequence of act and response,
of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always.
The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past.
Forgiveness frees the forgiver.
It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare."

~ Lance Morrow  

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Whosoever wishes to know about the world
must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."

~ Heraclitus  

"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."

~ John Cogley  

"To act without clear understanding,
to form habits without investigation,
to follow a path all one's life
without knowing where it really leads --
such is the behavior of the multitude."

~ Mencius  

"Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way
along which others seek the truth."

~ Sir Walter Besant  

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself,
even though you never touch its coattails."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

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

~ George Jacob Holyoake  

"Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation."

~ Adi Shankaracharya  

"The man who craves disciples and wants followers
is always more or less of a charlatan.
The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself;
and he wants others to be themselves, also."

~ Elbert Hubbard  

"The real searcher after truth
will not receive the old because it is old,
or reject the new because it is new.
He will not believe men because they are dead,
or contradict them because they are alive.
With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains,
without the slightest regard to the author.
He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, --
but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason.
Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station
of the man who gave it to the world."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"Life is a gift.
Freedom is a responsibility."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man... The sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people."

~ Samuel Adams