Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
Trouble no one about his religion.
Respect others in their views and demand that they respect yours.
Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.
Seek to make your life long and of service to your people.
Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,
or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,
for your life, for your strength.
Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.
If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools
and robs the spirit of its vision.
When your time comes to die,
be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death,
so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time
to live their lives over again in a different way.
Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."

~ Tecumseh  

"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity.
We are all formed of frailty and error;
let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly --
that is the first law of nature."

~ Voltaire  

"Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison
where you are both the inmate and the jailer."

~ Howard Martin  

"Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance,
there is no knowing where it will take one.
Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect
and hatred is violence to the heart."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life
are already three parts dead."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love;
for a man may love his brother so much that
he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper."

~ Everett Dean Martin  

"Not until right is founded upon reverence will it be secure;
not until duty is based upon love will it be complete;
not until liberty is based on eternal principles
will it be full, equal, lofty, and universal."

~ Henry Giles  

"Friendship is the only cure for hatred,
the only guarantee of peace."

~ Buddha  

"Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty."

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland  

"Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of art, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart -- builder of every home, kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody -- for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to Joy, and makes royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

~ Aesop  

"Those who are lifting the world upward and onward
are those who encourage more than criticize."

~ Elizabeth Harrison  

"Honesty demands that we boldly pursue ideas tested by time, defended by reason, validated by experience, and confirmed by revelation. We will only find truth when we place our confidence in it and not in ourselves. We will only learn when we love truth enough to measure all ideas with a measuring rod outside of those things being measured and are willing to discard those ideas we find to be "intolerable," inferior, and useless."

~ Everett Piper