Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Not to be, but to seem, virtuous --
it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"Every State is known by the rights it maintains."

~ Harold J. Laski  

"...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back."

~ Robert E. Lee  

"You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion."

~ Garrison Keillor  

"Law never made men a whit more just."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

"[A] deep-rooted culture of incompetence and corruption has made it virtually impossible for government to function fairly and efficiently. And because most government employees are shielded by layers of protection, they couldn't care less. Never before in the history of this nation has there been a greater divide between a self-serving federal leviathan and millions of Americans... 'Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,' Ronald Reagan reminded us during his inaugural address in 1981. Nothing's changed since then, with one exception: It's gotten far worse."

~ Arnold Ahlert  

"None can love freedom but good men;
the rest love not freedom, but license,
which never hath more scope than under tyrants."

~ John Milton  

"He that would make his own liberty secure
must guard even his enemy from oppression;
for if he violates this duty
he establishes a precedent
that will reach to himself."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Where the words of a constitution are unambiguous and in their commonly received sense lead to a reasonable conclusion, it should be read according to the natural and most obvious import of the framers, without resorting to subtle and forced construction for the purpose of limiting or extending its operation."

~ A State Ex Rel. Torryson v. Grey  

"Gun control advocates need to realize that passing laws that honest gun owners will not obey is a self-defeating strategy. Gun owners are not about to surrender their rights, and only the most foolish of politicians would risk the stability of the government by trying to use the force of the state to disarm the people."

~ J. Neil Schulman  

"There are two freedoms --
the false, where a man is free to do what he likes;
the true, where a man is free to do what he ought."

~ Charles Kingsley  

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for."

~ John Milton