Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true."

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson  

"It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth,
but merely to fight on its behalf."

~ Blaise Pascal  

"And, finally, that truth is great and will prevail if left to herself;
that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and
has nothing to fear from the conflict unless by human interposition
disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate,
errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself,
even though you never touch its coattails."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth.
Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses,
rammed down our throats -- we know it not."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist,
an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world.
And we wanted to depict the world as it was."

~ Krzysztof Kieslowski  

"It is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence,
so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence.
And any who act as if freedom's defenses are found in suppression and
suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"I never give them hell.
I just tell the truth and
they think it's hell."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end,
the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion...
In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating
the difference between independence of thought and subservience."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."

~ Albert Einstein  

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them."

~ Galileo Galilei  

"Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all.
It can neither be declared from pulpits,
nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared
and sold in packages ready for use.
Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such,
with such help as he can get, indeed,
but not without stern labor of his own."

~ John Ruskin  

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

~ Jesus of Nazareth  

~ Jim Bishop  

"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides."

~ William Cowper