Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development
overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home."

~ Frances Moore Lappé  

"I believe more follies are committed
out of complaisance to the world,
than in following our own inclinations."

~ Mary Wortley Montagu  

"I am only one, but I am one.
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
What I can do, I should do.
And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will do."

~ Edward Everett Hale  

~ German Proverb  

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

~ James D. Miles  

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"There can be no public or private virtue
unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth."

~ George Jacob Holyoake  

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."

~ William Shakespeare  

"Character is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image."

~ Alan Keyes  

"We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act but a habit"

~ Aristotle (False)  

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts."

~ Blaise Pascal  

"Nearly all men can withstand adversity;
if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

~ George Washington  

"Fortune does not change men; it unmasks them."

~ Suzanne Necker