Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A little lie is like a little pregnancy:
it doesn't take long before everyone knows."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."

~ Dr. Seuss  

"The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."

~ Edward R. Murrow  

"True Liberty and Justice may require resistance to law."

~ Second Monument to Shays' Rebellion  

"Think like a man of action,
act like a man of thought."

~ Henri-Louis Bergson  

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

~ Thomas Mann  

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door."

~ Emma Lazarus  

"If you think you’re free, there’s no escape possible."

~ Ram Dass  

"It is better to live one day as a lion, than one hundred years as a sheep"

~ Roman Proverb  

"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

~ Albert Camus  

"One of the qualities of liberty is that,
as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding.
Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says,
‘I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it."

~ Henrik Ibsen  

"Persecution is the first law of society because
it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it."

~ Howard Mumford Jones  

"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?"

~ Maurice Freehill  

"Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again,
and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge."

~ Sir Francis Bacon