Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I will have nought to do with a man
who can blow hot and cold with the same breath."

~ Aesop  

"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified."

~ Aesop  

"People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves."

~ Aesop  

"There is no such crime as a crime of thought;
there are only crimes of action."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,
Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead."

~ Davy Crockett  

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

~ Fisher Ames  

"Against nature and within nature there is no freedom."

~ Ludwig Von Mises  

"Liberty consists in the ability to choose."

~ Simone Weil  

"Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government
with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that
every break of the fundamental laws, though dictated by necessity,
impairs that sacred reverence which ought to be maintained in
the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright."

~ Baruch Spinoza  

"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists.... We must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."

~ Communist Party Education Workers Congress  

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"

~ John Adams  

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact
that the entire world agrees with it,
nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it."

~ Maimonides  

"What is not in nature can never be true."

~ Voltaire