Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

~ Herman Melville  

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~ Marianne Williamson  

"The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be resolute -- he simply speaks and does what is right."

~ Mencius  

"In their tendencies toward tolerance, openmindedness, faith in people and lack of authoritarianism, selfactualizers do appear to possess psychic strengths which allow them to work well in situations marked by a diversity of viewpoints."

~ Jeanne Knutson  

"Art is individualism, and individualism is
a disturbing and disintegrating force.
There lies its immense value.
For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type,
slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and
the reduction of man to the level of a machine."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"Our duty, as men and women
is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist.
We are collaborators in creation."

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin  

"A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"We will all be better citizens when voting records of our Congressmen
are followed as carefully as scores of pro-football games."

~ Lou Erickson  

"When a man assumes a public trust,
he should consider himself as public property."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists."

~ George W. Bush  

"If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter
which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that
can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use;
the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter."

~ George Washington  

"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

~ Sidney Hook  

"The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held,
but in how they are held: instead of being viewed dogmatically,
they are held tentatively, with a consciousness that new evidence
may at any moment lead to their abandonment."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"If you do not specify and confront real issues,
what you will do will surely obscure them.
If you do not alarm anyone morally,
you will yourself remain morally asleep.
If you do not embody controversy,
what you say will be an acceptance
of the drift to the coming human hell."

~ C. Wright Mills  

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is
exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."

~ Dorothy Thompson