Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It takes a long time to understand nothing."

~ Edward Dahlberg  

"You can never get enough of what you don't really need."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you've got it made."

~ Groucho Marx  

"In our country, the lie has become
not just a moral category
but a pillar of the State."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

"The house of delusions is cheap to build
but drafty to live in, and
ready at any instant to fall."

~ A. E. Housman  

"The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority
indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be
accepted as such by a majority of the people."

~ David Edwards  

"A morsel of genuine history
is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"A man should never be ashamed to own
that he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

~ Alexander Pope  

"He that wrestles with us
strengthens our nerves,
and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper."

~ Edmund Burke  

"All truth passes through 3 stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

~ Arthur Schopenhauer  

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then
to hang a question mark on the things
you have long taken for granted."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy,
but a love of one's country deep enough
to call her to a higher standard."

~ George McGovern  

"The mortalist enemy unto knowledge,
and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth,
has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority."

~ Sir Thomas Browne  

"In times of universal deceit,
telling the truth will be a revolutionary act."

~ George Orwell