Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things;
the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings
which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"Do all the good you can.
By all the means you can.
In all the ways you can.
In all the places you can.
At all the times you can.
To all the people you can.
As long as ever you can."

~ John Wesley  

"It is not because we have been free,
but because we have a right to be free,
that we ought to demand freedom.
Justice and liberty have neither
birth nor race, youth nor age."

~ Sir James MacKintosh  

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

~ George Jacob Holyoake  

"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily;
but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."

~ Immanuel Kant  

"It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not."

~ Andre Gide  

"The life of the nation is secure
only while the nation is
honest, truthful, and virtuous."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie:
A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby."

~ George Herbert  

"We, today, stand on the shoulders
of our predecessors who have gone before us.
We, as their successors, must catch the torch
of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors.
We cannot lose this battle."

~ Benjamin E. Mays  

"Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace,
or after ages of conflict and war;
but come it will, and abide it will,
so long as the principles by which
it was acquired are held sacred."

~ Edward Everett  

"I am not free until I say so.
And there's a good chance
I am going to have to fight once I do.
Ever since I declared my Independence,
I have had to support and defend it."

~ Eric Schaub  

"Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind."

~ James Wilson  

"The things that will destroy us are:
politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity;
and worship without sacrifice."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest."

~ Thomas Jefferson