Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...
to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.'  Our principle is that the [Communist] Party commands the gun and the gun will never be allowed to command the Party."

~ Mao Tse-tung  

"Indeed the Idols I have loved so long,
have done my credit in this World much wrong;
have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup,
and sold my Reputation for a Song."

~ Omar Khayyam  

"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little
they really know about what they imagine they can design."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"Make men large and strong
and tyranny will bankrupt itself
in making shackles for them."

~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher  

"Liberation is not deliverance."

~ Victor Hugo  

"I call the mind free which jealously guards
its intellectual rights and powers,
which calls no man master,
which does not content itself
with a passive or hereditary faith..."

~ William Ellery Channing  

"You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."

~ Navajo Proverb  

"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."

~ Thomas Carlyle  

"The penalty good men pay
for indifference to public affairs,
is to be ruled by evil men."

~ Plato  

"The wise do freely, early and in good time,
what fools do later out of necessity."

~ Proverb  

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"The unexamined life, said Socrates,
is unfit to be lived by man.
This is the virtue of liberty, and
the ground on which we may justify our belief in it,
that it tolerates error in order to serve truth."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"If we cannot live so as to be happy,
let us at least live so as to deserve it."

~ Immanuel Hermann von Fichte  

"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose."

~ Robert Byrne