Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."

~ Jesus of Nazareth  

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man:
to know what he ought to believe;
to know what he ought to desire;
and to know what he ought to do."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas  

"Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without
which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us
reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance
under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we
counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable
of a bitter and bloody persecutions."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,
mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person
than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ...
the right to believe what one chooses,
the right to differ from his neighbor,
the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best,
the right to associate with whomever he chooses,
the right to join groups he prefers ..."

~ William O. Douglas  

"All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. "

~ Francis Church

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."

~ Thomas B. Reed  

"Driven from every other corner of the earth,
freedom of thought and the right of private judgment
in matters of conscience, direct their course
to this happy country as their last asylum."

~ Samuel Adams  

"You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time."

~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr.