Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."

~ Friedrich Durrenmatt  

"No man is great enough or wise enough
for any of us to surrender our destiny to.
The only way in which anyone can lead us is
to restore our belief in our own guidance."

~ Henry Miller  

"Individuality is to be
preserved and respected everywhere,
as the root of everything good."

~ Jean Paul  

"A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties."

~ Cyril James  

"Life is a gift.
Freedom is a responsibility."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Freedom is like taking a bath -- you have to keep doing it every day!"

~ Florynce Kennedy  

"Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness
will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others."

~ Charles Caleb Colton  

"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust."

~ Demosthenes  

"The simple step of a courageous individual
is not to take part in the lie.
One word of truth outweighs the world."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

"If you think you're too small to make a difference,
you haven't been in bed with a mosquito."

~ Anita Roddick  

"How wonderful it is
that nobody need wait
a single moment
before starting
to improve the world."

~ Anne Frank  

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."

~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin  

"I have always held firmly to the thought that
each one of us can do a little
to bring some portion of misery to an end."

~ Albert Schweitzer  

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph,
is for good men to do nothing."

~ Edmund Burke  

"For in a Republic, who is 'the country?'
Is it the Government which is for the moment in the saddle?
Why, the Government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant;
it cannot be its prerogative to determine
what is right and what is wrong,
and decide who is a patriot and who isn't.
Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."

~ Mark Twain