Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The process of liberation is continuous."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Liberty ... was a two-headed boon.
There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole
to determine the forms of their own government,
to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws....
There was second, the liberty of the individual man
to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum,
as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat;
but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field."

~ Wendell Phillips  

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When your time comes to die,
be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time
to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

~ Tecumseh  

"Truth is like the sun.
You can shut it out for a time,
but it ain't goin' away."

~ Elvis Presley  

"The truth is the only thing worth having, and,
in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed,
facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do."

~ E. V. Lucas  

"The highest compact we can make with our fellow is --
'Let there be truth between us two forevermore.' "

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all - security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

~ Edward Gibbon  

"By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died
at the hands of their own governments in this century.
Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?"

~ Joseph Sobran  

"It may be your intent to be our masters;
how can it be ours to be your slaves?"

~ Melians  

~ Aldous Huxley  

"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule."

~ Jefferson Davis  

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

~ Leonard Schapiro