Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is the greatest inequality to try to make unequal things equal."

~ Aristotle  

"We clamour for equality chiefly in areas where we cannot ourselves hope to obtain excellence."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."

~ Norman Mailer  

"You can fool all the people some of the time,
and some of the people all the time,
but you cannot fool all the people all of the time."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

~ Alan Jay Lerner  

"Whenever a separation is made
between liberty and justice,
neither, in my opinion, is safe."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Whoever controls the media,
controls the mind."

~ Jim Morrison  

"Governments need armies to protect them
against their enslaved and oppressed subjects."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"Once 'our people' get themselves
into a position to make policy,
they cease being 'our people'."

~ M. Stanton Evans  

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

~ W. E. B. Du Bois  

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred;
it is a habit to be acquired."

~ David Lloyd George  

"When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel ... for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon."

~ Thomas Paine