Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We believe that human happiness requires freedom
and that freedom requires limited government."

~ Charles Alan Murray  

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."

~ Milton Friedman  

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals -- if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"The ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle, home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics, he feels himself master of his fate. But otherwise he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."

~ George Orwell  

"Freedom is not something that can be given.
Freedom is something people take,
and people are as free as they want to be."

~ James Baldwin  

"Free is not the same as free and easy."

~ Larry Eisenberg  

"All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals."

~ John Quincy Adams  

"Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked
with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before
they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs,
police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people
out of our lives and went back to common sense."

~ Walter E. Williams  

"What chance of survival does a culture have
when its own elites actively seek its destruction?"

~ William S. Lind  

"All men having power ought to be mistrusted."

~ James Madison  

"In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."

~ John Marshall Harlan  

"There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them."

~ Joseph Joubert  

"In order to become the master,
the politician poses as the servant."

~ Charles de Gaulle  

"The average man does not want to be free.
He simply wants to be safe."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"While the State exists, there can be no freedom.
When there is freedom there will be no State."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin