Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided,
and that is the lamp of experience.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

~ Patrick Henry  

"The reality is, if we tell the truth, we only have to tell the truth once. If you lie, you have to keep lying forever."

~ Rabbi Wayne Dosick  

"Never assume the obvious is true."

~ William Safire  

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."

~ Groucho Marx  

"I never give them hell.
I just tell the truth and
they think it's hell."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

~ Mark Twain  

"If you shut your door to all errors,
truth will be shut out."

~ Rabindrnath Tagore  

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."

~ Sir James Dewar  

"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."

~ Titus Maccius Plautus  

"He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers."

~ Charles Peguy  

"The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state."

~ Edmond Cahn  

"Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at."

~ George Savile  

"It is well for people who think
to change their minds occasionally
in order to keep them clean.
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while."

~ Luther Burbank  

"The skeptic does not mean him who doubts,
but him who investigates or researches,
as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found."

~ Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo  

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

~ Thomas Paine