Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view."

~ Robert M. Hutchins  

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades,
has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who’d rather write a good story."

~ Jim Bishop  

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."

~ John Adams  

"America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears
like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."

~ Carl Friedrich Gauss  

"Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe."

~ David Sarnoff  

"A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Many of the deliberate con artists are the "true believers" of fanatical religious or political sects who actually accept the dogma that it is a mortal sin for you to take care of yourself and your family first and in any way exercise your right to the pursuit of happiness while their precious cause is in any way neglected, underfunded or even unaccepted."

~ Rick Gaber  

"To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution."

~ Samuel Johnson  

"Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Now all acts of legislature apparently contrary to natural right and justice, are, in our laws, and must be in the nature of things, considered as void. The laws of nature are the laws of God: A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to him from whose punishments they cannot protect us. All human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey. Such have been the adjudications of our courts of justice."

~ George Mason  

"But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people was the real American Revolution."

~ John Adams  

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man:
to know what he ought to believe;
to know what he ought to desire;
and to know what he ought to do."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas