Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2024-12-29 Dec 27, 2024Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.~ Herbert SpencerProclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.~ Liberty BellWhat light is to the eyes – what air is to the lungs – what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man. Without liberty, the brain is a dungeon, where the chained thoughts die with their pinions pressed against the hingeless doors.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Dec 26, 2024Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.~ CervantesThe cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.~ Josiah Gilbert HollandThe only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.~ William Gilmore Simms Dec 25, 2024Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.~ Jesus of NazarethThree things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.~ Saint Thomas AquinasLet us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.~ Thomas Jefferson Dec 24, 2024If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.~ John Stuart MillAmong the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ... the right to believe what one chooses, the right to differ from his neighbor, the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best, the right to associate with whomever he chooses, the right to join groups he prefers ...~ William O. DouglasAll minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. ~ Francis Church Dec 23, 2024One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.~ Thomas B. ReedDriven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.~ Samuel AdamsYou make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print