Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements."

~ Gordon B. Hinckley  

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was less competition there."

~ Indira Gandhi  

"Capital is a result of labor, and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force, and labor is therefore the employer of capital."

~ Henry George  

"[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."

~ John Locke  

"For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?"

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread."

~ Daniel Webster  

"Everything in the world is purchased by labor."

~ David Hume  

"Forms of expression always appear turgid to those
who do not share the emotions they represent."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want
to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as
(a) they know what they are doing,
(b) they consent to it, and
(c) no one -- at least no one other than the participants -- is harmed
by it."

~ Hugo Adam Bedau  

"A man is either free or he is not.
There cannot be any apprenticeship for freedom."

~ Imamu Amiri Baraka  

"Life, faculties, production -- in other words, individuality, liberty, property -- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation and are superior to it."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"I am I plus my circumstances."

~ José Ortega y Gasset  

"Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it."

~ Lucy Larcom