Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery."

~ Lawana Blackwell  

"He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still."

~ Samuel Butler  

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country
we have those three unspeakably precious things:
freedom of speech, freedom of conscience,
and the prudence never to practice either."

~ Mark Twain

"Then liberty, like day,
Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven
Fires all the faculties with glorious joy."

~ William Cowper  

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free.
Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this;
no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

~ William Godwin  

"The ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain, by fear, nor to exact obedience, but contrariwise, to free every man from fear, that he may live in all possible security; in other words, to strengthen his natural right to exist and work without injury to himself or others. No, the object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develope their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger, or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty."

~ Baruch Spinoza  

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men;
the rest love not freedom, but license."

~ John Milton  

"O liberty,
Parent of happiness, celestial born
When the first man became a living soul;
His sacred genius thou."

~ Sir Edward Dyer  

"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."

~ The Holy Bible  

"Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ...
this enterprise is for the young;
for those who can follow it up,
and bear it through to it's consummation.
It shall have all my prayers, and
these are the only weapons of an old man."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion, and I can only deplore the militant and essentially illiberal antireligionism which animated so much of nineteenth-century Continental liberalism. ... What distinguishes the liberal from the conservative here is that, however profound his own spiritual beliefs, he will never regard himself as entitled to impose them on others and that for him the spiritual and the temporal are different spheres which ought not to be confused."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."

~ George Washington  

"The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance."

~ Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre