Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas -- complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse."

~ George F. Kennan  

"We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish."

~ John Culkin  

"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation
to falsehood as light to darkness."

~ Leonardo Da Vinci  

"At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
contradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how
bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical
scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are
winnowed from deep nonsense. Of course, scientists make mistakes in
trying to understand the world, but there is a built-in error-correcting
mechanism: The collective enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical
thinking together keeps the field on track."

~ Carl Sagan  

"If you want to know the big 'T' Truth,
tell the little 't' truth without fail.
Then listen closely to what you say."

~ Eric Schaub  

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"Freedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization...
The history of civilization is in considerable measure
the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth
by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths.
Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not
to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge."

~ Felix Frankfurter  

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it."

~ Henry George  

"Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.
Majorities, of course, are often mistaken.
This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous.
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions."

~ Alan Barth  

"A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous."

~ Alfred Adler  

~ Bertrand Russell  

"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth."

~ Bill Clinton  

"History is written by the victor."

~ Latin Proverb  

"History is fables agreed upon."

~ Voltaire