Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it."

~ Abbie Hoffman  

"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts
to enforce a law not supported by the people."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"

~ Patrick Henry  

"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage."

~ Bruce Barton  

"Society attacks early when the individual is helpless."

~ B. F. Skinner  

"Now that no one buys our votes,
the public has long since cast off its cares;
for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships,
legions, and all else, now meddles no more and
longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses."

~ Juvenal  

"To change masters is not to be free."

~ Jose Marti y Perez  

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."

~ Josef Stalin  

"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."

~ Bobcat Goldthwait  

"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."

~ Henrik Ibsen  

"No man is great enough or wise enough
for any of us to surrender our destiny to.
The only way in which anyone can lead us is
to restore our belief in our own guidance."

~ Henry Miller  

"These things I believe:
That government should butt out.
That freedom is our most precious commodity and
if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away.
That individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
That the executive branch has grown too strong,
the judicial branch too arrogant
and the legislative branch too stupid.
That political parties have become close to meaningless.
That government should work to insure the rights of the individual,
not plot to take them away.
That government should provide for the national defense
and work to insure domestic tranquillity.
That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.
That America should be wary of foreign entanglements.
That the tree of liberty needs to be watered from time to time
with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That guns do more than protect us from criminals;
more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.
That states are the bulwark of our freedom.
That states should have the right to secede from the Union.
That once a year we should hang someone in government
as an example to his fellows."

~ Lyn Nofziger  

"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  

"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."

~ Helen Keller  

"Good government is the most dangerous government,
because it deprives people of the need to look after themselves."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi