Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else,
that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"The man who craves disciples and wants followers
is always more or less of a charlatan.
The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself;
and he wants others to be themselves, also."

~ Elbert Hubbard  

"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat,
for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator,
while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"So free we seem, so fettered fast we are."

~ Robert Browning  

"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges,
and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last
with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Every politician, every member of the clerical profession,
ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested
supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition,
and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry.
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it."

~ Thomas Cooper  

"With devotion's visage and pious action
we do sugar o'er the devil himself."

~ William Shakespeare  

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre,
but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

~ Khalil Gibran  

"Natural liberty is the right of common upon a waste;
civil liberty is the safe, exclusive, unmolested enjoyment of a cultivated enclosure."

~ William Paley  

"If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established."

~ Algernon Sidney  

"Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
[Lat., Liberatem natura etiam mutis animalibus datam.]"

~ Cornelius Tacitus  

"Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity."

~ Henry Wheeler Shaw