Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me."

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh  

"True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd,
but see not there the worse form of slavery,
which is when the herd crushes out the man."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry  

"Love your country but fear its government."

~ Daniel Webster  

"Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."

~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing  

"Reserve your right to think,
for even to think wrongly
is better than not to think at all."

~ Hypatia of Alexandria  

"The most dangerous man, to any government,
is the man who is able to think things out for himself,
without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct.
Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating,
enjoying privacy -- these are precisely what the structures
of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another."

~ John Taylor Gatto  

"Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw,
"You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies
have been beautifully organized to keep good men down."

~ John W. Gardner  

"No one can be free unless he is independent...
In reality, he who is served is limited in his independence..."

~ Maria Montessori  

"We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in
some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....
Self-government means self-reliance."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another,
and in so far as it tends to exist with
the freedom of all according to a universal law,
it is the one sole original inborn right belonging
to every man in virtue of his humanity."

~ Immanuel Kant  

"We have plenty of freedom in this country
but not a great deal of independence."

~ John W. Raper  

"Liberty's view of the government could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it works, work with it.
If it doesn't, work against it.
If it works you over, abolish it."

~ Angel Shamaya  

"The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"The worth of a state, in the long run,
is the worth of the individuals composing it."

~ John Stuart Mill