Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."

~ Jean-Paul Sartre  

"There is no such thing as a problem
without a gift for you in its hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts."

~ Richard Bach  

"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again."

~ William Cullen Bryant  

"To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein  

"As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs."

~ Sir Arthur Keith  

"Here I close my opinion.
I could not say less in view of questions of such gravity
that go down to the very foundations of the government.
If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside
by an Act of Congress, where is the course of usurpation to end?
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning.
It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping,
till our political contests will become a war of the poor
against the rich; a war growing in intensity and bitterness."

~ Justice Stephen J. Field  

"The whole principle is wrong.
It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk
because the baby can't eat steak."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes.  The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen and heads-men - and yet these frightful means and instrumentalities have committed far more crimes than they have prevented.... Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.  As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort -- as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

"The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution."

~ John Adams  

"Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being."

~ Lord Acton  

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Why are we proud [to be American]? We are proud, first of all, because from the beginning of this Nation, a man can walk upright, no matter who he is, or who she is. He can walk upright and meet his friend -- or his enemy; and he does not fear that because that enemy may be in a position of great power that he can be suddenly thrown in jail to rot there without charges and with no recourse to justice. We have the habeas corpus act, and we respect it."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"There are incalculable resources
in the human spirit,
once it has been set free."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."

~ John G. Diefenbaker