Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences."

~ O. A. Battista  

"If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

~ Rene Descartes  

"[When] Men are not allowed to think freely
about chemistry and biology,
why should they be allowed to think freely
about political philosophy?"

~ Auguste Comte  

"The free-thinking of one age is the common sense of the next."

~ Matthew Arnold  

"Civilization is a movement, not a condition;
it is a voyage, not a harbor."

~ Arnold J. Toynbee  

"In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men,
the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government
to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control
itself."

~ James Madison  

"The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society."

~ Margaret Mead  

"For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken."

~ Andrew Bernstein  

~ Edmund Burke  

"He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid."

~ Epictetus  

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this:
that a being governs its own actions.
A thing which is always subject to the direction
of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas  

"To learn who rules over you,
simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."

~ Voltaire  

"[I]t’s an unfortunate reality in many of the journalistic environments we exist today. We can’t criticize certain people, or dig into certain stories, or follow our noses on the trail of corruption if it means upsetting our publishers, sponsors, and donors."

~ Zaid Jilani