Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"It is a common heresy and its graves are to be found all over the earth. It is the heresy that says you can kill an idea by killing a man, defeat a principle by defeating a person, bury truth by burying its vehicle."

~ Adlai E. Stevenson II

My business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact,
not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley  

"Truth resides in every human heart,
and one has to search for it there,
and to be guided by truth as one sees it.
But no one has a right to coerce others
to act according to his own view of truth."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way
along which others seek the truth."

~ Sir Walter Besant  

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant
as a young man who has just discovered
an old idea and thinks it is his own."

~ Sydney J. Harris  

"To render the magistrate a judge of truth, and engage his authority in the suppression of opinions, shews an inattention to the nature and designs of political liberty."

~ Robert Hall  

"This is, in theory, still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperiled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths."

~ Simon Heffer  

"The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason."

~ Thomas Erskine  

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most times he will pick himself up and carry on."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"So long as there are earnest believers in the world,
they will always wish to punish opinions,
even if their judgment tells them it is unwise
and their conscience tells them it is wrong."

~ Walter Bagehot  

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous."

~ Ludwig Börne  

"May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy."

~ George Washington  

"Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind."

~ George Washington  

"No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass."

~ George Washington