Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"If you pinch the sea of its liberty,
though it be walls of stone or brass,
it will beat them down."

~ John Cotton  

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech,
all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions
are a sham, a pretense -- the sheerest mockery.
If the press is not free;
if speech is not independent and untrammeled;
if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear,
it makes no difference under what form of government you live,
you are a subject and not a citizen."

~ William E. Borah  

"The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression
that he often no longer knows what he is free from.
Neither does he know where he is not free;
he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them."

~ Erik H. Erikson  

"We are a workers’ party because we see in the coming battle between finance and labor the beginning and the end of the structure of the twentieth century. We are on the side of labor and against finance ... The value of labor under socialism will be determined by its value to the state, to the whole community. Labor means creating value, not haggling over things."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels

"The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable."

~ C. Van Woodward

"A free society can exist only when public spirit is balanced by an equal inclination of men to mind their own business."

~ Edward A. Shils  

"Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace,
or after ages of conflict and war;
but come it will, and abide it will,
so long as the principles by which
it was acquired are held sacred."

~ Edward Everett  

"Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant,
they are incidental to a free and constitutional country,
and you must put up with these inconveniences
or do without many important advantages."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"The objector and the rebel
who raises his voice against
what he believes to be
the injustice of the present
and the wrongs of the past
is the one who hunches the world along."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers."

~ John Adams  

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force.
Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

~ George Washington  

"The truth is that neither then nor at any former time, since I had attained my maturity in Age, Reading and reflection had I imbibed any general Prejudice against Kings, or in favour of them. It appeared to me then as it has done ever since, that there is a State of Society in which a Republican Government is the best, and in America the only one..."

~ John Adams