Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Albert Einstein  

"It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time."

~ Mignon McLaughlin  

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

~ William Shakespeare  

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

~ Edmund Burke  

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

~ Max Lerner  

"Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life."

~ John Stuart Mill  

~ Michel de Montaigne  

"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."

~ Thomas Fuller  

"The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

~ Tommy Smothers  

~ Walter Lippmann  

"If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that Government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable."

~ Justice William J. Brennan  

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me."

~ Proverb  

"Take care that no one hates you justly."

~ Publilius Syrus