Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

~ Mark Twain  

"Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers. And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free, even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do."

~ Nat Hentoff  

"A university’s essential character is that
of being a center of free inquiry and criticism --
a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."

~ Richard Hofstadter  

"One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and
the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with,
and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth
of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use
after they escape."

~ Will Rogers  

"Education is a private matter between the person
and the world of knowledge and experience,
and has little to do with school or college."

~ Lillian Smith  

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~ Marianne Williamson  

"They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism."

~ Robert Hughes  

"It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone
to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."

~ William Kingdon Clifford  

"Contemporary liberals increasingly think and talk like a class of self-satisfied commissars enforcing a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. The idea that someone, somewhere might devote her life to an alternative vision of the good -- one that clashes in some respects with liberalism's moral creed -- is increasingly intolerable. That is a betrayal of what's best in the liberal tradition."

~ Damon Linker  

"Look at America now; older middle-income Americans are encouraged to divest themselves of their assets in order to qualify for Medicaid so that taxpayers at large must subsidize the costs of warehousing the artificially impoverished nursing homes -- in the name of “independent living” and “not being a burden to the children.” "

~ Daniel F. Walker  

"To those who find it difficult to understand how a mind can be imprisoned, my puny indictment of the communist movement before the Tydings Committee may have seemed slight indeed, for I no doubt gave some comfort to the Party by my negative approach. But it takes time to “unbecome” a Communist."

~ Dr. Bella Dodd