Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise;
to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them."

~ Voltaire  

"Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate,
we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."

~ Wendell L. Willkie  

"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups
start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left."

~ William O. Douglas  

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson  

"It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships,
that they give credibility to the opinions they attack."

~ Voltaire  

"If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime;
but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare."

~ William D. Arnot  

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it."

~ Thomas Fuller  

"Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly."

~ Virgil  

"As the circle of knowledge expands, so does the Sphere of darkness that encompasses it."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments
that occupy the minds of your young peoples,
and I will tell you what is to be
the character of the next generation."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster.  Your nobility of spirit will spark itself."

~ Corri Alius  

"He that wrestles with us
strengthens our nerves,
and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper."

~ Edmund Burke  

"There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character."

~ Frederick W. Faber