Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The right to know is like the right to live.
It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption
that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution."

~ John Milton  

"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and
intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished
from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and
the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people,
in order to betray them."

~ Justice Joseph Story  

"The restriction of knowledge to an elite group
destroys the spirit of the society and
leads to its intellectual impoverishment."

~ Albert Einstein  

"All truth passes through 3 stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

~ Arthur Schopenhauer  

"The uncontested absurdities of today
are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."

~ Ayn Rand  

"If you believe everything you read,
you better not read."

~ Japanese Proverb  

"Stop judging by mere appearances,
and make a right judgment."

~ Jesus of Nazareth  

"If you add to the truth, you subtract from it."

~ The Talmud  

"This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated
to the principle – among others – that honest men may honestly disagree;
that if they all say what they think,
a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error;
that in the competition of the marketplace of ideas,
the sounder ideas will in the long run win out."

~ Elmer Davis  

~ Frank Norris  

"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it."

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth. If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian... we can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop... free to work... free to choose my own teachers... free to follow the religion of my Fathers... free to think and talk and act for myself."

~ Chief Joseph