Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"How many crimes are permitted simply because
their authors could not endure being wrong."

~ Albert Camus  

"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong --
is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth,
then all Americans are in peril."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"To make your children capable of honesty
is the beginning of education."

~ John Ruskin  

"As part of the conversation with student leaders, we talked about the concept of Zero Tolerance. While I appreciate the desire for such a policy, it is unachievable under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The challenge we all face is to find the balance between wanting to eliminate expressions of racism and bigotry and supporting the free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. If we value freedom of speech, we must acknowledge that some may find the expressions of others unwelcome, painful, or even, offensive. We can, however, speak out and condemn such expressions, and we can work to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment."

~ Mark Kennedy  

"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls --
the worst man is as strong as the best at that game;
it does not depend on what kind of paper
you drop into the ballot-box once a year,
but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber
into the street every morning."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty."

~ Marvin Cooley  

"I may die a beggar, but with the Grace of God, I will not die a slave.
I will not be filed, stamped, briefed, debriefed, or numbered...
My life is my own."

~ The Prisoner  

"Integrity is its own reward."

~ Dr. Laura Schlessinger  

"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."

~ Dr. Thomas Fuller  

"The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair
and make everybody happy is understandable [...]
There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court."

~ Justice Janice Brown  

"If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals—not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall."

~ Albert J. Beveridge  

"The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions."

~ Alexander Chase  

"There can be no compromise on basic principles.
There can be no compromise on moral issues.
There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge,
of truth, of rational conviction."

~ Ayn Rand