Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."

~ Paul Bede Johnson  

~ Robert Frost  

"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known,
for knowledge is the image of existence,
and things mean and splendid exist alike."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"I am determined my children shall be
brought up in their father's religion,
if they can find out what it is."

~ Charles Lamb  

"'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'
That is all ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know."

~ John Keats  

"The village atheist has the right to be heard;
he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right
not to have his own children indoctrinated in what
he believes are false and foolish teachings,
he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught."

~ Patrick J. Buchanan  

"Belief means not wanting to know what is true."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche  

~ H. G. Wells  

"The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not
only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other
attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis 3 make the
father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since
the earliest days the church as an organization has thrown itself
violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man.
It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible
defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad
institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it
was the apologist for the divine right of kings."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic
is no more to the point than the fact than
a drunken man is happier than a sober one."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty."

~ John Adams  

"Neither the trappings of robes, nor temples of stone, nor a fixed
liturgy, nor an extensive literature or history is required to meet the
test of beliefs cognizable under the Constitution as religious. So far
as our law is concerned, one person's religious beliefs held for one
day are presumptively entitled to the same protection as the beliefs of
millions which have been shared for thousands of years."

~ Judge Jack B. Weinstein  

"We have forgotten the gracious hand which has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

~ Charles Chiniquy  

~ Hilaire Belloc  

"...At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the amendments,
the universal sentiment was that Christianity
should be encouraged, not any one sect.
Any attempt to level and discard all religion would
have been viewed with universal indignation."

~ James Meacham