Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Honor lies in honest toil."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.
They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny."

~ Aeschylus  

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free.
Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this;
no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

~ William Godwin  

"The objector and the rebel who raises his voice
against what he believes to be the injustice
of the present and the wrongs of the past
is the one who hunches the world along."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph,
is for good men to do nothing."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end.
It is the highest political end."

~ Lord Acton  

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

~ Aesop  

"The whole earth is in jail
and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak."

~ Wavy Gravy  

"Politics is not the art of the possible.
It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"There is no act, however virtuous, for which
ingenuity may not find some bad motive."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence.
It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant
and a fearful master."

~ George Washington (False)