Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Freedom is always wise."

~ Alexander Meiklejohn  

"Give me again my hollow tree
A crust of bread, and liberty!"

~ Alexander Pope  

"Only the educated are free."

~ Epictetus  

"The freedom to read is essential to our democracy.
It is continuously under attack...
These actions apparently arise from a view that
our national tradition of free expression is no longer valid;
that censorship and suppression are needed to avoid
the subversion of politics and the corruption of morals."

~ American Library Association  

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

~ Voltaire  

"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"Show me the prison,
Show me the jail,
Show me the prisoner
whose life has gone stale.
And I'll show you a young man
with so many reasons why
And there, but for fortune,
go you or I."

~ Phil Ochs  

"'For your own good' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction."

~ Janet Frame  

"No one is free who is not master of himself."

~ Epictetus  

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."

~ Horace  

"And to say that society ought to be governed
by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless.
Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?"

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Liberty is the only thing
you cannot have
unless you are willing
to give it to others."

~ William Allen White