Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is better to be hated for what you are
than to be loved for what you are not."

~ Andre Gide  

"He that is good, will infallibly become better,
and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse;
for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."

~ Charles Caleb Colton  

"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised
that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."

~ Dorothy Thompson  

"Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments
that occupy the minds of your young peoples,
and I will tell you what is to be
the character of the next generation."

~ Edmund Burke  

"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."

~ e. e. cummings  

"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."

~ J. C. Watts, Jr.  

"It is in the character of very few men
to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

~ Aeschylus  

"Character is the accumulated confidence that individual men and women acquire from years of doing the right thing, over and over again, even when they don't feel like it. People with character understand that their lives are filled with events and choices that are significant, above all, not because of the short term success or failure of the search for money or position, but because the choices we make are actually making us into one kind of person, or another. Our life of choices is a life-long labor to make ourselves into a person who has begun to respond adequately to the awesome gift we received from God when He made us in His image."

~ Alan Keyes  

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

~ Aristotle  

"A good end cannot sanctify evil means;
nor must we ever do evil,
that good may come of it."

~ William Penn  

"The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it."

~ James Madison  

"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit.
In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

"...Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed...so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger."

~ Patrick Henry