Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?"

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"And so, my fellow Americans:
Ask not what your country can do for you --
ask what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world:
Ask not what America will do for you,
but what together we can do for the freedom of man."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"As we celebrate Thanksgiving ... we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance. Let us recommit ourselves to that devotion to God and family that has played such an important role in making this a great Nation, and which will be needed as a source of strength if we are to remain a great people."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"...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  

"It takes a long time to understand nothing."

~ Edward Dahlberg  

"It is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data."

~ Orson Scott Card  

"For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal."

~ Sir Arthur Eddington  

"Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts
have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later
comes to be regarded as obvious."

~ Isidor Issac Rabi  

"Free speech is essential to education, especially to a liberal
education, which encourages the search for truths in art and science.
If expression is restricted, the range of inquiry is also curtailed...
The beneficiaries of a free society have a duty to pursue the truth
and to protect the freedom of expression that makes possible
the search for a new enlightenment."

~ Norman Dorsen  

"It is the great parent of science & of virtue:
and that a nation will be great in both,
always in proportion as it is free."

~ Thomas Jefferson