Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The highest reward for man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."

~ John Ruskin  

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"If everyone were clothed with integrity,
if every heart were just, frank, kindly,
the other virtues would be well-nigh useless,
since their chief purpose is
to make us bear with patience
the injustice of our fellows."

~ Molière  

"Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue."

~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld  

"A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed,
nor attempts to govern others."

~ Jean de la Bruyere  

"No one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies."

~ Salvador de Madariaga  

"A man should never be ashamed to own
that he has been in the wrong,
which is but saying, in other words,
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."

~ Alexander Pope  

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable,
but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesmen,
like any other sensible human being,
always learns more from his opponents
than from his fervent supporters."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes,
without being aware of it, the soul of a slave.

~ Georges Ripert  

"[A]fter unleashing the Red Guards … to serve his political purposes, Mao Zedong was no longer able to control them."

~ Nien Cheng  

"Day and night the city resounded with the loud noise of drums and gongs … looting and the ransacking of private homes … The violence of the Red Guards seemed to have escalated. … Articles in the newspapers … encouraged the Red Guards and congratulated them on their vandalism. They were … exhorted to be fearless in their work of toppling the old world and building a new one based on Mao’s teachings."

~ Nien Cheng  

"The newspaper announced that the mission of the Red Guards was to rid the country of the ‘Four Olds’: old culture, old customs, old habits, and old ways of thinking. There was no clear definition of ‘old’; it was left to the Red Guards to decide. First of all, they changed street names."

~ Nien Cheng