Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Perfect Freedom is reserved
for the man who lives by his own work,
and in that work does what he wants to do."

~ R. G. Collingwood  

"Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed
on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges,
to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few?
Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed
with a divine purpose and law,
that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted,
and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?

~ Samuel Adams  

"Freedom always carries a burden of proof,
always throws us back on ourselves."

~ Shelby Steele  

"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily;
but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."

~ Immanuel Kant  

"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all.
It can neither be declared from pulpits,
nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared
and sold in packages ready for use.
Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such,
with such help as he can get, indeed,
but not without stern labor of his own."

~ John Ruskin  

"The priceless heritage of our society is the
unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think
as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism,
and we have no claim to it."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"But there is another strong objection which I,
one of the laziest of all the children of Adam,
have against the Leisure State.
Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery
using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on,
might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum.
It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum.
We should ourselves become parts of a machine,
even if the machine only used those parts once a week.
The machine would be our master, for the machine
would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion
of how it was really being produced."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. "

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology,
nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade.
It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."

~ Abbie Hoffman  

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything --
and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg  

"If we are ever in doubt about what to do,
it is a good rule to ask ourselves
what we shall wish on the morrow
that we had done."

~ John Lubbock