Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"My father taught that the only helping hand
you're ever going to be able to rely on
is the one at the end of your sleeve."

~ J. C. Watts, Jr.  

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit;
and wise are they who obey its signals.
If it does not always tell us what to do,
it always cautions us what not to do."

~ Lydia M. Child  

"Discipline must come through liberty...
We do not consider an individual disciplined
when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute
and as immovable as a paralytic.
He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."

~ Maria Montessori  

"We, today, stand on the shoulders
of our predecessors who have gone before us.
We, as their successors, must catch the torch
of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors.
We cannot lose this battle."

~ Benjamin E. Mays  

"The tree of liberty could not grow
were it not watered with the blood of tyrants"

~ Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac  

"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.
Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.
Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force.
Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined."

~ Patrick Henry  

"He who would be free must strike the first blow."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength."

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  

"You must believe in free will; there is no choice."

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer  

"From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own."

~ Carl Schurz  

"Any time we deny any citizen
the full exercise of his constitutional rights,
we are weakening our own claim to them."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"When law and morality contradict each other,
the citizen has the cruel alternative
of either losing his moral sense
or losing his respect for the law."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"You can only protect your liberties in this world
by protecting the other man's freedom.
You can only be free if I am free."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"God grants liberty only to those who love it,
and are always ready to guard and defend it."

~ Daniel Webster  

"The hottest places in hell
are reserved for those
who in a period of moral crisis
maintain their neutrality."

~ Dante