Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"If you would be a real seeker after truth,
it is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."

~ Rene Descartes  

"The unexamined life, said Socrates,
is unfit to be lived by man.
This is the virtue of liberty, and
the ground on which we may justify our belief in it,
that it tolerates error in order to serve truth."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man
tries to communicate always sounds foolish."

~ Herman Hesse  

"Peace if possible, but truth at any rate."

~ Martin Luther  

"History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press:

- Concentrated Power of the Big Press.
- Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly.
- Governmental control of the press.
- Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures.
- Big Business mentality.
- Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them
from criticizing each other.
- Social blindness.

~ Max Lerner  

"It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."

~ Giordano Bruno  

"It is well for people who think
to change their minds occasionally
in order to keep them clean.
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while."

~ Luther Burbank  

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong."

~ Voltaire  

"The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt
but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ...
economics is a form of brain damage."

~ Hazel Henderson  

"Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee,
"If it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be;
but as it isn't, it ain't.
That's logic."

~ Lewis Carroll  

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

~ George Santayana  

"Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it."

~ George Washington  

"Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest."

~ Calvin Coolidge