Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate anything but liberty."

~ James Madison  

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

~ Patrick Henry  

"I think it might be important to point out that this country is a one-party country. Half of that party is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn’t make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians."

~ Hugh Downs  

"If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion."

~ Joseph Sobran  

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago, and a racist today."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do on every occasion, and take it for granted that you mean to do right."

~ Robert E. Lee  

"Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man."

~ John Locke  

"This, then, is freedom in the external life of man -- that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"It must never be forgotten... that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power."

~ Richard Henry Lee  

"All men are created equally free and independent,
and have certain inherent rights,
of which they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity;
among which are the enjoyment of life and liberty,
with the means of acquiring and possessing property,
and pursuing the obtaining of happiness and safety."

~ George Mason  

"He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"Individuality is freedom lived."

~ John Dos Passos