Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The inescapable price of liberty is an ability to preserve it from destruction."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength."

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."

~ Harry Emerson Fosdick  

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

~ Marianne Williamson  

"We are not liberated until we liberate others. So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves."

~ Marilyn Ferguson  

"The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control.  Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you."

~ Michael Badnarik  

"If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly."

~ Ronald Reagan

"We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure."

~ Sir Karl Popper  

"Agriculture, manufacturers, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking,
the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."

~ Voltaire

"There are two good things in life --
freedom of thought and freedom of action."

~ W. Somerset Maugham  

"They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way."

~ Casey Stengel  

"Liberty will not descend to a people,
a people must raise themselves to liberty;
it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed."

~ Charles Caleb Colton  

"Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."

~ Florence Ellinwood Allen