Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank."

~ Charles Darwin

"'Painters and poets,' you say,
'have always had an equal license in bold invention.'
We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves
and in turn we give it to others."

~ Horace  

"Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable."

~ Pope John Paul II  

"Security is when everything is settled.
When nothing can happen to you.
Security is the denial of life."

~ Germaine Greer  

"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."

~ David Hume  

"It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."

~ John Adams  

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

~ Daniel Webster  

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

~ Emily Dickinson  

"History does not exist for us until and unless we dig it up, interpret it, and put it together. Then the past comes alive, or, more accurately, it is revealed for what it has always been - a part of the present."

~ Frederick W. Turner III  

"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."

~ Carl Rogers  

"This is exactly the message that faily tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious."

~ Bruno Bettelheim  

"Political history is far too criminal and
pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young.
Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction."

~ W. H. Auden  

"Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners."

~ Charlton Heston  

"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal."

~ Sir Arthur Eddington  

"The next time somebody in the media denies that there is media bias, ask how they explain the fact that there are at least a hundred stories about the shrinking arctic ice cap for every one about the expanding antarctic ice cap, which has now grown to record size."

~ Thomas Sowell