Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means."

~ Georges Bernanos  

"There is a higher court than courts of justice
and that is the court of conscience.
It supercedes all other courts."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"A good end cannot sanctify evil means;
nor must we ever do evil,
that good may come of it."

~ William Penn  

"Did you ever hear anyone say,
'That work had better be banned because
I might read it and it might be very damaging to me.' "

~ Joseph Henry Jackson  

"And to say that society ought to be governed
by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless.
Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?"

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"The greatest Glory of a free-born People,
Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children."

~ William Havard  

"The foundation of our Empire was not laid
in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition,
but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind
were better understood and more clearly defined,
than at any former period."

~ George Washington  

"Driven from every other corner of the earth,
freedom of thought and the right of private judgment
in matters of conscience, direct their course
to this happy country as their last asylum."

~ Samuel Adams  

"The history of the world is none other than
the progress of the consciousness of freedom."

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  

"Take nothing on its looks;
take everything on evidence.
There's no better rule."

~ Charles Dickens  

"The real searcher after truth
will not receive the old because it is old,
or reject the new because it is new.
He will not believe men because they are dead,
or contradict them because they are alive.
With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains,
without the slightest regard to the author.
He may have been a king or serf -- a philosopher or servant, --
but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason.
Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station
of the man who gave it to the world."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads,
or you will learn nothing."

~ Thomas Henry Huxley  

"The press must grow day in and day out --
it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon."

~ Josef Stalin  

"I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be."

~ Neal Boortz  

"The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going."

~ Proverbs