Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends
and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while
we are drifting side by side to our common doom."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"We pass the word around;
we ponder how the case is put by different people;
we read the poetry;
we meditate over the literature;
we play the music;
we change our minds;
we reach an understanding.
Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down,
but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings
to comprehend each other."

~ Lewis Thomas  

"We are all full of weakness and errors,
let us mutually pardon each other our follies.
It is the first law of nature."

~ Voltaire  

"By nature men are pretty much alike;
it is learning and practice that set them apart."

~ Confucius  

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next;
virtue is doing it."

~ David Starr Jordan  

"Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate
problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in
pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and
ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a
company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness,
learning only by incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering
of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light
enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt
to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one
of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as
well as the map of our infintesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled,
and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for
his faithlessness..."

~ Leslie Stephen  

"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

~ Henry Brooks Adams  

"None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will
invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and
each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience.
It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other
opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war
is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even
deceit, can sleep better."

~ Mark Twain  

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands; one Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."

~ Rev. Francis Bellamy  

"[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest ... [is] to refine and enlarge the public views by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations."

~ James Madison  

"If America is destroyed, it may be by Americans who salute the flag,
sing the national anthem, march in patriotic parades, cheer Fourth of
July speakers – normally good Americans, but Americans who fail to
comprehend what is required to keep our country strong and free,
Americans who have been lulled away into a false security."

~ Ezra Taft Benson  

"They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"All might be free if they valued freedom,
and defended it as they should."

~ Samuel Adams