Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Man is condemned to be free.
Condemned because he did not create himself,
yet is nevertheless at liberty, and
from the moment he is thrown into this world
he is responsible for everything he does."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre  

"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."

~ Voltaire  

"There is one, and only one, thing in modern society
more hideous than crime -- namely, repressive justice."

~ Simone Weil  

"Courage is the first of all the virtues
because if you haven't courage,
you may not have the opportunity
to use any of the others."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"A truth that's told with bad intent,
beats all the lies you can invent."

~ William Blake  

"Absolute justice is achieved
by the suppression of all contradiction,
therefore it destroys freedom."

~ Albert Camus

"Do not expect justice where might is right."

~ Plato  

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

~ Edward Gibbon  

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"I see men ordinarily more eager
to discover a reason for things
than to find out whether things are so."

~ Michel De Montaigne  

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."

~ Elie Wiesel  

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.