George William Curtis Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.

  George William Curtis

  Dark, Light, Civilization

• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Ignorance, Intelligent

• Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

  George William Curtis

  Sorrow, Liberty, Common

  Concord (Mass.), Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Russell Lowell, George William Curtis, James Lyman Whitney (1876). “Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord Fight, April 19, 1875”

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