Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable."

~ Cervantes  

"Liberty will not descend to a people,
a people must raise themselves to liberty;
it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

~ Charles Caleb Colton  

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

~ Edmund Burke  

"If you pinch the sea of its liberty,
though it be walls of stone or brass,
it will beat them down."

~ John Cotton  

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance,
this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall,
freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."

~ Henry Cabot Lodge  

"Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law."

~ Henry Campbell Black  

"Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure; not until duty is based upon love will it be complete; not until liberty is based on eternal principles will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal."

~ Henry Giles  

"One realizes that one of the chief differences
between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult
knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"For every problem there is one solution
which is simple, neat, and wrong."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Fame is proof that the people are gullible."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt
of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand [television]."

~ Fred W. Friendly  

"Under the Equal Protection clause, not to mention the First Amendment itself, government may not grant the use of a forum to people whose views it finds acceptable, but deny use to those wishing to express less favored or more controversial views."

~ Supreme Court Of The United States  

"If a single writer in a country is in chains,
then there are some links of that chain that binds us all."

~ Vaclav Havel