Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The truth needs so little rehearsal."

~ Barbara Kingsolver  

"To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been:
Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in."

~ Mark Van Doren  

"A man may be born a jackass;
but it is his business if he makes himself a double one."

~ Martin H. Fischer  

"If we cannot live so as to be happy,
let us at least live so as to deserve it."

~ Immanuel Hermann von Fichte  

"Those who believe that they believe in God,
but without passion in their hearts,
without anguish in mind,
without uncertainty,
without doubt,
without an element of despair even in their consolation,
believe only in the God idea, not God Himself."

~ Miguel de Unamuno  

"The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose."

~ Robert Byrne  

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God
  who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
  intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

~ Galileo Galilei  

"But there is another strong objection which I,
one of the laziest of all the children of Adam,
have against the Leisure State.
Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery
using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on,
might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum.
It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum.
We should ourselves become parts of a machine,
even if the machine only used those parts once a week.
The machine would be our master, for the machine
would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion
of how it was really being produced."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The common man is the sovereign consumer
whose buying or abstention from buying
ultimately determines what should be produced
and in what quantity and quality."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"Courage without conscience is a wild beast."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.
The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is
wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts
they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions,
it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...
And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not
warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of
resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as
to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost
in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from
time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It is its natural manure."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights,
makes the most reliable soldier on earth."

~ Thomas J. Jackson  

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

~ Buddha  

"He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief."

~ Dr. Thomas Fuller  

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience.
With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

~ Voltaire