Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A man does what he must --
in spite of personal consequences,
in spite of obstacles and dangers --
and this is the basis of all human morality."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"Honor lies in honest toil."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might."

~ Aeschylus  

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities
to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."

~ Albert Einstein  

"In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling,
getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves.
Towns are like great meeting houses with all the inhabitants as members.
In them the people wield immense influence over their magistrates
and often carry their desires into execution without intermediaries."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"Liberty is always unfinished business."

~ American Civil Liberties Union  

"Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power.
The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed.
This is a major reason for promoting freedom."

~ Rudolph J. Rummel  

"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the
ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! -- All the armies of Europe, Asia
and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own
excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander,
could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the
Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the
approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it
must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction
be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation
of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."

~ Aesop  

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly
to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when
all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."

~ Aristotle  

"A community is like a ship;
everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."

~ Henrik Ibsen  

"Government cannot make us equal;
it can only recognize, respect, and
protect us as equal before the law."

~ Justice Clarence Thomas  

"The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily."

~ Albert Camus  

"I heartily accept the motto,
that government is best which governs least ...
Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,
that government is best which governs not at all;
and when men are prepared for it,
that will be the kind of government which they will have."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people."

~ Justice William O. Douglas