Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback."

~ Bill Copeland  

"It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."

~ Jerome K. Jerome  

"Respect for the truth is an acquired taste."

~ Mark Van Doren  

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment & happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.  

"Everyone may seek his own happiness in the way that seems good to himself, provided that he infringe not such freedom of others to strive after a similar end as is consistent with the freedom of all according to a possible general law."

~ Immanuel Kant  

"There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey."

~ William Kingdon Clifford  

"The persecuting spirit has its origin morally in the disposition of man to domineer over his fellow creatures; intellectually, in the assumption that one's own opinions are infallibly correct."

~ John Fiske  

"It is not the disease, but the physician; it is the pernicious hand of government alone which can reduce a whole people to despair."

~ Junius  

"All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward, or a criminal, or both."

~ Max Muller  

"Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defence."

~ Lord Acton  

"Freedom is a new religion,
the religion of our time."

~ Heinrich Heine  

"I wish men to be free, as much from mobs as kings,—from you as me."

~ Lord Byron  

"The history of civilized man is the history of the incessant conflict between liberty and authority. Each victory for liberty marked a new step in the world's progress; so we can measure the advance of civilization by the amount of freedom acquired by human institutions."

~ Charles T. Sprading  

"The first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought.
The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for
mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would
advance civilization. But the authoritarians protested that freedom
of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong,
that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people."

~ Charles T. Sprading  

"And here is the difference between the Libertarians and the Authoritarians: the latter have no confidence in liberty; they believe in compelling people to be good, assuming that people are totally depraved; the former believe in letting people be good, and maintain that humanity grows better and better as it gains more and more liberty. If Libertarians were merely to ask that liberty be tried in any one of the other fields of human expression they would meet the same opposition as their pioneer predecessors; but such is their confidence in the advantages of liberty that they demand, not that it be tried in one more instance only, but that it be universally adopted."

~ Charles T. Sprading