Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Politicians say they're beefing up our economy.
Most don't know beef from pork."

~ Harold Lowman  

"Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs
chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them."

~ Adam Smith  

"Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe
whose influence in human affairs has always been
dominant and controlling."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people."

~ Grover Cleveland  

"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."

~ Dalton Camp  

"Why doesn't the fellow who says 'I'm no speechmaker'
let it go at that instead of giving a demonstration?"

~ Kin Hubbard  

"The wisest thing to do with a fool
is to encourage him to hire a hall
and discourse to his fellow citizens.
Nothing chills nonsense like exposure to air."

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"Purveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis,
not even allow others their judgments...
They celebrate "difference," but they will not allow people truly
to be different -- to think differently, and to say what they think."

~ Mark Berley  

"The more unpopular an opinion is, the more necessary it is
that the holder should be somewhat punctilious in his observance
of conventionalities generally."

~ Samuel Butler  

"If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact,
can't protect their conversations,
in particular their political conversations,
I think you take a long step toward making a transition
from a free society to a totalitarian society."

~ Whitfield Diffie  

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction.
Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"Believe me, it is not failing to speak out
with promptitude and energy that is the matter with you;
it is having nothing consistent or valuable to say."

~ Matthew Arnold