Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Joseph Story  

"To enjoy freedom, if the platitude is pardonable,
we have of course to control ourselves.
We must not squander our powers,
helplessly and ignorantly,
squirting half the house in order
to water a single rose-bush;
we must train them, exactly and powerfully,
here on the very spot."

~ Virginia Woolf  

"It is not enough to do your best;
you must know what to do, and THEN do your best."

~ W. Edwards Deming  

"Give to every human being
every right that you claim for yourself."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience.
With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

~ Voltaire  

"Liberty is the only thing
you cannot have
unless you are willing
to give it to others."

~ William Allen White  

"The more things a man is ashamed of,
the more respectable he is."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"If it was necessary to tolerate in other people
everything that one permits oneself,
life would be unbearable."

~ Georges Courteline  

"If we were all to be judged by our thoughts,
the hills would be swarming with outlaws."

~ Johann Sigurjonsson  

"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."

~ French Proverb  

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

~ Mark Twain  

"In all men is evil sleeping;
the good man is he who will not awaken it,
in himself or in other men."

~ Mary Renault  

"Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A man will find that as he alters his thoughts
toward things and other people,
things and others will alter towards him."

~ James Allen  

"Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule.
On them rests the freedom of man,
and they tower above the light of nature."

~ Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus  

"For the human mind is seldom at stay:
If you do not grow better,
you will most undoubtedly grow worse."

~ Samuel Richardson