Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"It is morally as bad not to care
whether a thing is true or not,
so long as it makes you feel good,
as it is not to care how you got your money
as long as you have it."

~ Edwin Way Teale  

"He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it,
without asking who is for it or who is against it."

~ Henry George  

"It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honour and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?"

~ Socrates  

"Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate,
we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love."

~ Wendell L. Willkie  

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men,
not one is so highly prized as that of character."

~ Henry Clay  

"Every man who says frankly and fully
what he thinks is so far doing a public service.
We should be grateful to him for attacking
most unsparingly our most cherished opinions."

~ Sir Leslie Stephen  

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day. I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens, who, reading newspapers, live & die in the belief, that they have known something of what has been passing in the world in their time; whereas the accounts they have read in newspapers are just as true a history of any other period of the world as of the present, except that the real names of the day are affixed to their fables."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Over the 20th century, the federal government has assumed a vast and unprecedented set of powers. Not only has the exercise of those powers upset the balance between federal and state governments; run roughshod over individuals, families, and firms; and reduced economic opportunity for all; but most of what the federal government does today -- to put the point as plainly and candidly as possible -- is illegitimate because done without explicit constitutional authority. The time has come to start returning power to the states and the people, to relimit federal power in our fundamental law, to restore constitutional government."

~ Roger Pilon  

"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."

~ William Shakespeare  

"The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Let the laws be clear, uniform and precise;
to interpret laws is almost always to corrupt them."

~ Voltaire