Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment."

~ Merry Browne  

"Throughout history, the attachment
of even the humblest people to their freedom...
has come as an unpleasant shock to condescending ideologues."

~ Paul Bede Johnson  

"Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt."

~ Robert Lindner  

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

~ Confucius  

"Men cannot see truth, because they love falsehood. The gospel is not seen, because it is too pure for their loose lives and lewd thoughts."

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility
against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek

"Human rights are not a privilege conferred by government.
They are every human being's entitlement by virtue of his humanity.
The right to life does not depend, and must not be contingent,
on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign. ...
You must weep that your own government, at present, seems blind to this truth."

~ Mother Teresa  

"While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage."

~ The Holy Bible

"If you admit that to silence your opponent by force
is to win an intellectual argument,
then you admit the right to silence people by force."

~ Hans Eysenck  

"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe... till we come to the hard bottom of rocks in place, which we can call reality."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"Reasonable argument is impossible
when authority becomes the arbiter."

~ Orson Scott Card  

"Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"To be sure of hitting the target,
shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target."

~ Ashleigh Brilliant  

"The house of delusions is cheap to build
but drafty to live in, and
ready at any instant to fall."

~ A. E. Housman