Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society."

~ Antonio Gramsci  

"Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control."

~ Jack Hugh  

"Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct.
Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating,
enjoying privacy -- these are precisely what the structures
of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another."

~ John Taylor Gatto  

"How do you tell a Communist?
Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?
It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"When we are planning for posterity,
we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction."

~ W. H. Auden  

~ Cornelius Tacitus  

"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward
monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the
concentration of more and more power over public opinion
in fewer and fewer hands."

~ Spiro Agnew  

"The general [federal] government will tend to monarchy,
which will fortify itself from day to day,
instead of working its own cures"

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

~ Aesop  

"How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well."

~ Barry Goldwater  

"No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

~ H. L. Mencken  

~ Mark Twain  

~ Michel De Montaigne