Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

~ Ellen Glasgow  

"Is there a greater tragedy imaginable than that,
in our endeavour consciously to shape our future
in accordance with high ideals, we should in fact
unwittingly produce the very opposite of
what we have been striving for?"

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, and a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and keep government free. The people ought, therefore, to pay particular attention to these points, in the choice of officers and representatives, and have a right to exact a due and constant regard to them, from their legislators and magistrates, in the making and executing such laws as are necessary for the good government of the State."

~ Vermont Declaration of Rights  

"The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh  

"It takes less time to do a thing right,
than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  

"The reality is, if we tell the truth,
we only have to tell the truth once.
If you lie, you have to keep lying forever."

~ Rabbi Wayne Dosick  

"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony
to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Some who are too scrupulous to steal your possessions nevertheless see no wrong in tampering with your thoughts."

~ Khalil Gibran  

"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth
and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.
This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal
any part of what one has recognized to be true."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Heretics were often most bitterly persecuted
for their least deviation from accepted belief.
It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles
that irritated the righteous to madness.
Why can they not yield on so trifling a matter?"

~ Leo Shestov  

"To be able to think freely,
a man must be certain that
no consequence will follow
whatever he writes."

~ Ernest Renan  

"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong --
is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth,
then all Americans are in peril."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls --
the worst man is as strong as the best at that game;
it does not depend on what kind of paper
you drop into the ballot-box once a year,
but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber
into the street every morning."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and
discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into
physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights
of meeting physical force with soul force."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."

~ Henry David Thoreau