Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Stanley Fish  

"Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"Liberty does not consist in mere declarations of the rights of man.
It consists in the translation of those declarations into definite action."

~ Woodrow Wilson  

~ Hedrick Smith  

~ J. Robert Oppenheimer  

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

~ Ronald Reagan  

~ Ronald Reagan  

~ Ronald Reagan  

"I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands."

~ E. B. White  

~ Henry David Thoreau  

~ Robert Briffault  

"A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion."

~ H. L. Mencken  

~ Joseph A. Schumpeter  

"You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world."

~ Octave Mirbeau