Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I view great cities as pestilential to the morals,
the health and the liberties of man.
True, they nourish some of the elegant arts;
but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere;
and less perfection in the others, with more health,
virtue and freedom, would be my choice."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages."

~ Morris R. Cohen  

"Man free, man working for himself, with choice of time, place, and object."

~ William Wordsworth  

"Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even be mentioned. For how can it be mentioned without damaging the respect which it inspires? Still further, morality and political economy must be taught from the point of view of this law; from the supposition that it must be a just law merely because it is a law. Another effect of this tragic perversion of the law is that it gives an exaggerated importance to political passions and conflicts, and to politics in general."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"I don’t believe in quotas.
America was founded on a philosophy
of individual rights, not group rights."

~ Justice Clarence Thomas  

"In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on,
usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult
as it originally was."

~ Eleanor Roosevelt  

"Tyranny seldom announces itself. ...
In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant.
A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical."

~ Joseph Sobran  

"We must now face the harsh truth that the objectives of communism are being steadily advanced because many of us do not recognize the means used to advance them. ... The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a Conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst."

~ J. Edgar Hoover  

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold:
its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas,
America will collapse from within."

~ Josef Stalin  

"Government by idea tends to take in everything,
to make the whole of society obedient to the idea.
Spaces not so governed are unconquered,
beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger."

~ Lord Acton  

"Those who hope that we shall move away from the socialist path will be greatly disappointed. Every part of our program of perestroika … is fully based on the principle of more socialism and more democracy. ... I would like to be clearly understood ... we, the Soviet people, are for socialism. ... We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy. ... More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life. … We will proceed toward better socialism rather than away from it. We are saying this honestly, without trying to fool our own people or the world. Any hopes that we will begin to build a different, non-socialist society and go over to the other camp are unrealistic and futile. Those in the West who expect us to give up socialism will be disappointed. ... It’s my conviction that the human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another. That’s what our communist vocabulary calls internationalism and it means promoting universal human values."

~ Mikhail Gorbachev  

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

~ Late 16th Century Proverb  

"The holier-than-thou activists who blame the population for not
spending more money on their personal crusades are worse than
aggravating. They encourage the repudiation of personal responsibility
by spreading the lie that support of a government program fulfills
individual moral duty."

~ Patrick Cox  

"We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'"

~ Patrick J. Buchanan