Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"For all men being originally equals,
no one by birth could have a right
to set up his own family in perpetual preference
to all others for ever."

~ Thomas Paine  

"When we lose
the right to be different,
we lose
the privilege to be free."

~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes  

"Freedom is not a fixed and possessed thing.
It is a quality of life.
And like action itself,
it is something experienced
only by individuals."

~ Neil A. McDonald  

"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."

~ Adolf Hitler (Questionable)  

"The uncontested absurdities of today
are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."

~ Ayn Rand  

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus  

"You ask yourself not
if this or that is expedient,
but if it is right."

~ Alan Paton  

"Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly."

~ Virgil  

"Among the several cloudy appellatives
which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment,
there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion
than the word 'Order'."

~ Jeremy Bentham  

"That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are built up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society."

~ Robert F. Kennedy  

"The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right,
the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"Enslave the liberty of but one human being and
the liberties of the world are put in peril."

~ William Lloyd Garrison