Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In literature as in love,
we are astonished by what is chosen by others."

~ Andre Maurois  

"The entire American political system is a con, a sleazy mix of
legalized bribes, auctioning off of favors, revolving doors between
government agencies and the corporations they enrich and the blatant
hypocrisy of snake-oil salespeople who know the marks (voters) face a
false choice between two parties that are the same poison sold under
different labels."

~ Charles Hugh Smith  

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies
to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule --
and both commonly succeed, and are right."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"There is no maxim in my opinion which is more liable to be misapplied, and which therefore needs elucidation than the current one that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong... . In fact it is only reestablishing under another name and a more specious form, force as the measure of right... ."

~ James Madison  

"Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge."

~ Clemens von Metternich  

"The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative."

~ Henry Grady Weaver