Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ John E. McLaughlin  

"I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people."

~ John le Carré  

"....it is always easier to tell people what to do than to find out what is happening..."

~ Martin Pawley  

"...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise."

~ Francis Bacon  

"A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held."

~ Georg Cantor  

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"As for the rage to believe that we have found the secret of liberty in general permissiveness from the cradle on, this seems to me a disastrous sentimentality, which, whatever liberties it sets loose, loosens also the cement that alone can bind society into a stable compound -- a code of obeyed taboos. I can only recall the saying of a wise Frenchman that `liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.' Historically, those peoples that did not discipline themselves had discipline thrust on them from the outside. That is why the normal cycle in the life and death of great nations has been first a powerful tyranny broken by revolt, the enjoyment of liberty, the abuse of liberty -- and back to tyranny again. As I see it, in this country -- a land of the most persistent idealism and the blandest cynicism -- the race is on between its decadence and its vitality."

~ Alistair Cooke  

~ Charles F. Kettering  

~ Euripides  

"Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it."

~ Henry St. John  

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

~ Plato  

"I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the republic
for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all."

~ Pledge of Allegiance  

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it... Rise for the flag salute."

~ Frank Zappa  

"No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents."

~ Wendell Phillips