Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The deterioration of every government begins
with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."

~ Charles-Louis De Secondat  

"Principio Obstate (Resist from the beginning)."

~ Latin Proverb  

"It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."

~ Leonardo Da Vinci  

"I begin to think,
that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....
Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."

~ Abigail Adams  

"There is an irreducible thing. It's called freedom. It is native to every individual. Sometimes it rears its head in the middle of the night, and the dreamer awakes. And he asks himself: what is my freedom for? And then he begins a voyage that no device can record, measure, or analyze. If he pursues it long enough, it takes him out of the labyrinth."

~ Jon Rappoport  

"None who have always been free
can understand the terrible fascinating power
of the hope of freedom
to those who are not free."

~ Pearl S. Buck  

"No cause is left but the most ancient of all,
the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history
has determined the very existence of politics,
the cause of freedom versus tyranny."

~ Hannah Arendt  

"Whosoever wishes to know about the world
must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season."

~ Heraclitus  

"Lose this day loitering
'Twill be the same old story,
Tomorrow and the next,
Even more dilatory.
Whatever you would do,
Or dream of doing, begin it!
Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it.
Begin it now."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"The laws in question can, therefore, only be justified by the theory of vindictive punishment, which holds that certain sins, though they may not injure anyone except the sinner, are so heinous as to make it our duty to inflict pain upon the delinquent. This point of view, under the influence of Benthamism, lost its hold during the nineteenth century. But in recent years, with the general decay of Liberalism, it has regained lost ground, and has begun to threaten a new tyranny as oppressive as any in the Middle Ages."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"I know no class of my fellowmen,
however just, enlightened, and humane,
which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely
with the liberties of any other class."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze
We lift our heads, a race of other days."

~ Charles Sprague

"Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations."

~ Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine  

"Everything can be taken from a man
but one thing: the last of human freedoms --
to chose one’s attitudes in any given
set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

~ Viktor Frankl