Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

~ Quintus Ennius  

"Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
From none but self expect applause:
He noblest lives and noblest dies
Who makes and keeps his self-made laws."

~ Sir Richard Francis Burton  

"The patriot, like the Christian, must learn to bear revilings and persecutions as a part of his duty; and in proportion as the trial is severe, firmness under it becomes more requisite and praiseworthy. It requires, indeed, self-command. But that will be fortified in proportion as the calls for its exercise are repeated."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Freedom is not a fixed and possessed thing.
It is a quality of life.
And like action itself,
it is something experienced
only by individuals."

~ Neil A. McDonald  

"Freedom lies in being bold."

~ Robert Frost  

"Perfect Freedom is reserved
for the man who lives by his own work,
and in that work does what he wants to do."

~ R. G. Collingwood  

"It is the mark of an educated man to be able
to entertain a thought without accepting it."

~ Aristotle  

"As compared with impulsive commitment to the first idea which dawns,
that is, with intuitive action, reasoning is patient,
exploratory of other possibilities, and deliberative."

~ Edwin Arthur Burtt  

"Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule.
On them rests the freedom of man,
and they tower above the light of nature."

~ Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus  

"Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of
change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and
rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity
for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will
be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will
have no control."

~ John Chancellor  

"The priceless heritage of our society is the
unrestricted constitutional right of each member to think
as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism,
and we have no claim to it."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"Too often when we talk about racial healing, we make the old assumption that government can heal the racial divide. … Republicans and Democrats – red, yellow, black and white – have to understand that we must individually, all of us, accept our share of responsibility. … It does not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It does not happen by trying to turn rich against poor or by using the politics of fear. It does not happen by reducing our values to the lowest common denominator. And friends, it does not happen by asking Americans to accept what’s immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance. "

~ J. C. Watts, Jr.  

"If Big Brother (of Orwell's 1984) comes to America, he will not be a fearsome, foreboding figure with a heart-chilling, omnipresent glare as in 1984. He will come with a smile on his face, a quip on his lips, a wave to the crowd, and a press that (a) dutifully reports the suppressive measures he is taking to save the nation from internal chaos and foreign threat; and (b) gingerly questions whether he will be able to succeed."

~ Michael Parenti  

"There never was an idea stated that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison
without formulating any charge known to the law, and
particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers,
is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation
of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."

~ Sir Winston Churchill