Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme.
Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech,
to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble,
it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face."

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"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  

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue."

~ Barry Goldwater (Questionable)  

"Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionaries and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.
The shout is a rattling of chains and always was."

~ D. H. Lawrence  

"Non-cooperation with evil
is as much a duty as is
cooperation with good."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.
The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history
of the limitation of governmental power,
not the increase of it."

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty
because we are afraid of what they may do or say."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt  

"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history."

~ William O. Douglas  

"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  

"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences."

~ Andre Gide  

"Freedom is hammered out on the anvil
of discussion, dissent and debate."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then."

~ Thomas Jefferson