Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The beginning of philosophy is
the recognition of the conflict between opinions."

~ Epictetus  

"[N]o good government but what is republican...
the very definition of a republic is
'an empire of laws, and not of men.'"

~ John Adams  

"The last of the human freedoms --
to choose one's attitude
in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way."

~ Viktor Frankl  

"...and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November, next to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, or will be ...that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to there becoming a nation... And also that we then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions... to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a governmment of wise, just and Constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed...(and) to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among us...given under my hand at the City of New York, the 3rd day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1789."

~ George Washington  

"Tis the upright mind that holds true sovereignty."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about
what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us,
then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency."

~ Otis Chandler  

"For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never in any wise consent submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory we fight, nor riches, or for honour, but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life."

~ The Declaration of Arbroath 1320  

"Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone."

~ John Quincy Adams  

"Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted.  I don't accept it."

~ Pablo Casals  

"You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine.
You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine.
I will free the world of a poisonous thing.
Take that, you hound, and that! -- and that! -- and that! -- and that!"

~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  

"A greater principle is at stake than the fate of any particular president."

~ Benjamin Curtis  

"If liberty is worth keeping and free representative government worth saving, we must stand for all American fundamentals—not some, but all. All are woven into the great fabric of our national well-being. We cannot hold fast to some only, and abandon others that, for the moment, we find inconvenient. If one American fundamental is prostrated, others in the end will surely fall."

~ Albert J. Beveridge  

"Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the "latent spark"… If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?"

~ John Adams