Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Whosoever wishes to know about the world
must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."

~ Heraclitus  

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance."

~ Edgar J. Mohn

"Liberty is a slow fruit."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."

~ Cato  

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts,
but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

~ Francis Bacon  

"Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized
in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the
knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual
can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather
the judgement that something else is more important than fear."

~ Ambrose Redmoon  

"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act but a habit"

~ Aristotle (False)  

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost."

~ Arthur Ashe  

"Science without religion is lame,
religion without science is blind."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."

~ Heinrich Heine  

"We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search
for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what they help
distribute to the public; by which means a falsehood once received from
a famed writer becomes traditional to posterity."

~ John Dryden  

"Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if necessary, and to grant permission for reading forbidden books, but also to supervise, ex officio, books that are being published, and to pass sentence on such as deserve to be prohibited."

~ Pope Pius X  

"Censorship ends in logical completeness
when nobody is allowed to read any books
except the books that nobody reads."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"To limit the press is to insult a nation;
to prohibit reading of certain books is
to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves."

~ Claude-Adrien Helvetius