Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A man must first govern himself
ere he is fit to govern a family;
and his family ere he be fit to bear
the government of the commonwealth."

~ Sir Walter Raleigh  

"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."

~ Thucydides  

"Destroy the family, you destroy the country."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"Things ’twas hard to bear ’tis pleasant to recall."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The greatest part of our happiness depends
on our dispositions, not our circumstances."

~ Martha Washington  

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

~ Plato  

"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The smallest act of kindness
is worth more than
the greatest intention."

~ Khalil Gibran  

"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."

~ The Koran  

"Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another."

~ Baruch Spinoza  

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

~ Booker T. Washington  

"A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden."

~ Buddha  

"Forgive, but never forget."

~ John F. Kennedy

"The experience that was had in ... the taking away of private property, and the possession of it in community, by a commonwealth ... was found to breed much confusion and discontent; and retard much employment which would have been to the general benefit.... For the young men that were most able and fit for labor and service objected that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children, without any recompense.... The strong man or the resourceful man had no more share of food, clothes, etc., than the weak man who was not able to do a quarter the other could; this was thought injustice. The aged and graver men, who were ranked and equalized in labor, food, clothes, etc., with the meaner and younger ones, thought it some indignity and disrespect to them."

~ William Bradford  

"If all were to share alike, and all were to do alike, then all were on an equality throughout, and one was as good as another; and so, if it did not actually abolish those very relations which God himself has set among men, it did at least greatly diminish the mutual respect that is so important should be preserved amongst them. Let none argue that this is due to human failing, rather than to this communistic plan of life in itself...."

~ William Bradford