Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"But there is another strong objection which I, one of the laziest of all the children of Adam, have against the Leisure State. Those who think it could be done argue that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master, for the machine would produce our food, and most of us could have no notion of how it was really being produced."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty."

~ Hilaire Belloc  

"We have depended on government for so much for so long that we as people have become less vigilant of our liberties. As long as the government provides largesse for the majority, the special interest lobbyists will succeed in continuing the redistribution of welfare programs that occupies most of Congress's legislative time."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of a field in hope that the cow will back up to them."

~ Elbert Hubbard  

"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it."

~ George Bernard Shaw