Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Families would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support."

~ Lisa Schiffen  

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures."

~ Luc de Clapiers  

"Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else."

~ Buddha

"Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison
where you are both the inmate and the jailer."

~ Howard Martin  

"Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."

~ J. H. Payne

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and
discover that the prisoner was you."

~ Lewis Smedes

"Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"One of the things that bothers me most is the growing belief in the country that security is more important than freedom. It ain't."

~ Lyn Nofziger  

"The first destroyer of the liberties of a people is he who first gave them bounties and largess."

~ Plutarch  

"Morality cannot exist one minute without freedom... Only a free man can possibly be moral. Unless a good deed is voluntary, it has no moral significance."

~ Everett Dean Martin  

"We hold it for a fundamental and undeniable truth, that religion, or the duty we owe our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right."

~ James Madison  

"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."

~ Edmund Burke  

"The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations."

~ Eric Hoffer

"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air -- that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."

~ H. L. Mencken