Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way."

~ Hosea Ballou

"Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure.' "

~ H. L. Mencken  

"To follow foolish precedents, and wink
with both our eyes, is easier than to think."

~ William Cowper  

"Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor."

~ William Cobbett  

~ William Cowper  

"Government machinery has been described
as a marvelous labor saving device which
enables ten men to do the work of one."

~ John Maynard Keynes  

"No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor."

~ Ulysses S. Grant  

"Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

~ Buddha  

"I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune."

~ James Weldon Johnson  

"Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air.
Vote Conservative, and you can live in them."

~ David Frost  

"The non-producers now receive the larger share of what those who labor produce. The result is natural. Discontent culminates in exactly the same ratio that intelligence sustains aspiration."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic -- it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out."

~ James Madison