Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Talent develops in tranquillity,
character in the full current of human life."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting
us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to
us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our
circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of
nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the
striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a
foundation for inner security."

~ Albert Einstein  

"This is the sum of all true righteousness: deal with others as thou wouldst thyself be dealt by. Do nothing to thy neighbor which thou wouldst not have him do to thee hereafter."

~ The Mahabharata  

"Non-cooperation with evil
is as much a duty as is
cooperation with good."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"It is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

~ St. Paul  

"No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction
until the state is indifferent to every form
of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism."

~ Harold J. Laski  

"I know of but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery  

"Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past."

~ Maurice Maeterlinck  

"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."

~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman  

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit.
In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

"The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty."

~ John Milton  

"And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system."

~ John Steinbeck  

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi