Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A committee can make a decision
that is dumber than any of its members."

~ David B. Coblitz  

"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which,
though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"A government can be compared to our lungs.
Our lungs are best when we don't
realize they are helping us breathe.
It is when we are constantly aware of our lungs
that we know they have come down with an illness."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"We may be tossed upon an ocean where we can see no land -- nor, perhaps, the sun or stars. But there is a chart and a compass for us to study, to consult, and to obey. That chart is the Constitution."

~ Daniel Webster  

"It is my belief that there are 'absolutes' in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be 'absolutes.' "

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all."

~ Morris Mandel

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson  

"Every central government worships uniformity:
uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heart more than any other passion."

~ Cornelius Tacitus  

"Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom."

~ Oswald Spengler