Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely
the problem that concerned the founders of this nation:
how to limit the scope and power of government.
Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom,
come primarily from governmental restrictions
that we ourselves have set up."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented,
liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first."

~ Mark Twain  

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves
on a stool in the middle of a field
in hope that the cow will back up to them."

~ Elbert Hubbard  

"I cannot free another,
and no one can free me.
Freedom is acquired with
the responsibility that sustains it."

~ Eric Schaub  

"He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty
he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Independence is the recognition of the fact that
yours is the responsibility of judgement
and nothing can help you escape it --
that no substitute can do your thinking,
as no pinch-hitter can live your life."

~ Ayn Rand  

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force.
When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

~ Dorothy Thompson  

"It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth,
but merely to fight on its behalf."

~ Blaise Pascal  

"The objector and the rebel
who raises his voice against
what he believes to be
the injustice of the present
and the wrongs of the past
is the one who hunches the world along."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation,
are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. "

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Our job this day is to become part of the answer
to the world's immense and protracted suffering
rather than continuing our ancient task
of being part of the difficulty."

~ Hugh Prather  

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen'
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson  

"Then what is freedom?
It is the will to be responsible to ourselves."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche