Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations."

~ David D. Friedman  

"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force.
When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

~ Dorothy Thompson  

"Freedom has never been free.
Sometimes it costs everything you've got."

~ Eric Schaub  

"The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions."

~ Alexander Chase  

"The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life."

~ Bishop Joseph Butler  

"Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners."

~ Charlton Heston  

"Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights."

~ Charles Sumner

"I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone."

~ H. L. Mencken

"You must believe in free will; there is no choice."

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer  

"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."

~ Cato  

"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips, but few in their mind."

~ Dante Alighieri  

"Government has no other end than the preservation of property."

~ John Locke  

"Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!"

~ Frederick Douglass  

"The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."

~ Justice William O. Douglas