Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures."

~ Luc de Clapiers  

"An honest man can feel no pleasure
in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Honor lies in honest toil."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"The general object was to produce
a cure for the evils under which the United States labored;
that in tracing these evils to their origins,
every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy."

~ Edmund Randolph  

"[L]iberty, or the absence of coercion, or the leaving people to think, speak, and act as they please, is in itself a good thing. It is the object of a favourable presumption. The burden of proving it inexpedient always lies, and wholly lies, on those who wish to abridge it by coercion, whether direct or indirect."

~ John Morley

"Liberty is not a cruise ship full of pampered passengers.
Liberty is a man-of-war, and we are all crew."

~ Kenneth W. Royce  

"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  

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."

~ John Adams  

"To love truth for truth's sake is the
principal part of human perfection in this world,
and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

~ John Locke