Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Jesse Helms  

"The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (False)  

~ W. Cleon Skousen  

~ Adam Weishaupt  

"Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men (plus a few women). This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order. ... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment -- the ruling class -- is not supposed to be discussed."

~ Arthur S. Miller  

~ Michael Rivero  

~ Andrew Jackson  

"Governments do not govern,
but merely control the machinery of government,
being themselves controlled by the hidden hand."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the blood of real civilization."

~ G. M. Trevelyan  

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which is a proof against all argument, and
which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance --
that principle is condemnation before investigation."

~ Herbert Spencer (Questionable)  

"If the Constitution is adopted the Union will be in fact
and in theory an association of States of a Confederacy."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Were I to define the British constitution, therefore, I should say, it is a limited monarchy, or a mixture of the three forms of government commonly known in the schools, reserving as much of the monarchical splendor, the aristocratical independency, and the democratical freedom, as are necessary that each of these powers may have a control, both in legislation and execution, over the other two, for the preservation of the subject's liberty."

~ John Adams  

"Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble
and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!"

~ Samuel Adams