Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

2006 July 21

"The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators."

"For you see, the world is governed by very different personages
from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

~ Benjamin Disraeli

"Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we’re not vigilant."

~ Clint Eastwood

2006 July 20

"Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world.
Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful
political weapons man has ever forged."

~ William O. Douglas

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities
to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."

~ Albert Einstein

"Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000."

~ F. J. Lucas

2006 July 19

"Politics must be the battle of the principles...
the principle of liberty against the principle of force."

~ Auberon Herbert

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

~ H. L. Mencken

"There is no maxim, in my opinion,
which is more liable to be misapplied, and which,
therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current,
that the interest of the majority
is the political standard of right and wrong."

~ James Madison

2006 July 18

"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one,
has become the modern form of despotism."

~ Mary McCarthy