Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Arbitrary power is most easily established
on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness."

~ George Washington  

"When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed
save by those shown themselves worthy of it."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit."

~ Whittaker Chambers  

"Absolute freedom does not exist;
what does exist is the freedom
to choose anything you like and
then commit yourself to that decision. "

~ Paulo Coelho  

"...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."

~ Thomas Henry Huxley  

"The law will never make men free;
it is men who have got to make the law free."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The most dangerous man, to any government,
is the man who is able to think things out for himself,
without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes."

~ Andrew Jackson  

"To come to know your enemy, first you must become his friend,
and once you become his friend, all his defences come down.
Then you can choose the most fitting method for his demise."

~ Tokugawa Ieyasu  

"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

~ Wendell Phillips  

"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

~ Abraham Lincoln (False)  

"Liberty is not a right but a duty."

~ Ezra Pound  

"Freedom is like taking a bath -- you have to keep doing it every day!"

~ Florynce Kennedy