Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Remember this, if you can. There is nothing more precious than time. You probably feel you have a measureless supply of it, but you have not. Wasted hours destroy your life just as surely at the beginning as at the end, only in the end it becomes more obvious."

~ Herman Wouk  

"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"However, is it not prudent, since no one has gone into the future, to pay attention to our elders?"

~ Thomas Martin  

"Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom."

~ John Quincy Adams  

"As we struggle to teach our children … we dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God. If Congress can begin each day with a moment of prayer … so then can our sons and daughters."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Every man – in the development of his own personality –
has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions.
Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is
an affront to the dignity of man,
a negation of man’s essential nature."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him."

~ Buddha  

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met."

~ Dwight Lyman Moody  

"Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson  

"Any one having a white face, and being so disposed, could stop us, and subject us to examination. ... When I get there [in Pennsylvania], I shall not be required to have a pass; I can travel without being disturbed."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"The executive branch of this government never has,
nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct
of its officers to escape with impunity."

~ George Washington  

"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader
if he is also to answer to his own conscience."

~ Hartley Shawcross  

"Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print", it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another ."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

"A Bible and a newspaper in every house,
a good school in every district -
all studied and appreciated as they merit -
are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"The burning of an author’s books,
imprisonment for opinion’s sake,
has always been the tribute that an ignorant age
pays to the genius of its time."

~ Joseph Lewis