Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

~ Mark Twain  

"Do not expect justice where might is right."

~ Plato  

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Protection, therefore, against the tyranny
of the magistrate is not enough;
there needs protection against the tyranny
of the prevailing opinion and feeling,
against the tendency of society to impose,
by other means than civil penalties,
its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct
on those who dissent from them."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"It is a maxim among lawyers that whatever hath been done before may be done again, and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions, and the judges never fail of directing them accordingly."

~ Jonathan Swift  

"You do not examine legislation in the light
of the benefits it will convey if properly administered,
but in the light of the wrongs it would do and
the harm it would cause if improperly administered."

~ Lyndon B. Johnson  

"As for adopting the ways which the state has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways. They take too much time, and a man's life will be gone."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole
world will be clean."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history,
whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

~ Thomas Jefferson (False)  

"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom
for the one who thinks differently."

~ Rosa Luxemburg  

"Our own heart,
and not other men's opinions
form our true honor."

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge  

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself,
to resist invasions of it in the case of others."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Is freedom anything else than
the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."

~ Epictetus  

"Man is condemned to be free.
Condemned because he did not create himself,
yet is nevertheless at liberty, and
from the moment he is thrown into this world
he is responsible for everything he does."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre  

"A right is not what someone gives you;
it's what no one can take from you."

~ Ramsey Clark