Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism."

~ Alphonse de Lamartine  

~ Daniel George  

"A free society can exist only when public spirit is balanced by an equal inclination of men to mind their own business."

~ Edward A. Shils  

"The only vice that can not be forgiven is hypocrisy."

~ William Hazlitt  

"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice,
and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."

~ Molière  

"Had the states been despoiled of their sovereignty by the generality of the preamble, and had the Federal Government been endowed with whatever they should judge to be instrumental towards the union, justice, tranquility, common defence, general welfare, and the preservation of liberty, nothing could have been more frivolous than an enumeration of powers."

~ Virginia’s General Assembly  

~ Emma Goldman  

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

~ Margaret Mead  

"Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery."

~ Mikhail A. Bakunin  

"Nations grow corrupt,
love bondage more than liberty;
bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."

~ John Milton  

~ Lord Byron  

"The liberty of the people, he says,
whom power restrains unduly, perishes through liberty.
[Lat., Libertas, inquit,
populi quem regna coercent, Libertate perit.]"

~ Lucanus  

"Give me again my hollow tree
A crust of bread, and liberty!"

~ Alexander Pope  

~ John Dryden  

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."

~ Leonardo da Vinci