Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal."

~ Emma Goldman  

"It is frequently said that speech that is intentionally provocative and therefore invites physical retaliation can be punished or suppressed. Yet, plainly no such general proposition can be sustained. Quite the contrary…. The provocative nature of the communication does not make it any the less expression. Indeed, the whole theory of free expression contemplates that expression will in many circumstances be provocative and arouse hostility. The audience, just as the speaker, has an obligation to maintain physical restraint."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"Censorship is telling a man
he can't have a steak
just because a baby can't chew it."

~ Mark Twain  

"There’s no longer any left or right.
There’s the system and the enemies of the system."

~ Eduard Limonov  

"We are sure living in a peculiar time.
You get more for not working than you will for working,
and more for not raising a hog than for raising it."

~ Will Rogers  

"All history is one long story to this effect:
men have struggled for power over their fellow men
in order that they might win the joys
of earth at the expense of others,
might shift the burdens of life
from their own shoulders upon those of others."

~ William Graham Sumner  

"Our job is to give people not what they want,
but what we decide they ought to have."

~ Richard Salant  

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil."

~ Socrates  

"There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions...
The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and
whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed,
by the fear of heresy."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers … is absurd."

~ Robert McChesney  

"If you are afraid to speak against tyranny,
then you are already a slave."

~ John "Birdman" Bryant  

"The enormous gap between what U.S. leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology."

~ Michael Parenti  

"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

~ Thomas Sowell