Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion
of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished
period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers
(adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan
of reducing us to slavery."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"...Enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man, acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter -- with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more... a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"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.  

"But when no risk is taken there is no freedom.
It is thus that, in an industrial society,
the plethora of laws made for our personal safety
convert the land into a nursery, and
policemen hired to protect us
become selfserving busybodies."

~ Alan Watts  

"Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits;
it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men."

~ E. B. White  

"Since they have dared, I too shall dare.
I shall tell the truth because I pledged myself to tell it
if justice regularly empowered did not do so fully, unmitigated.
My duty is to speak; I have no wish to be an accomplice."

~ Emile Zola  

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."

~ George Washington  

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit;
and wise are they who obey its signals.
If it does not always tell us what to do,
it always cautions us what not to do."

~ Lydia M. Child  

"We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been."

~ Solon  

"The Right of all members of society to form
their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others
must be regarded as an essential principle
of a democratically organized society."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"True Liberty and Justice may require resistance to law."

~ Second Monument to Shays' Rebellion  

"Never give in. Never, never, never, never,
in nothing great or small, large or petty,
never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Never yield to force; never yield
to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"National injustice is the surest road to national downfall."

~ William E. Gladstone