Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

~ George Santayana  

"It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement."

~ Etienne de la Boétie  

"Appeasers believe that
if you keep on throwing steaks
to a tiger, the tiger
will turn vegetarian."

~ Heywood Hale Broun  

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

~ A. J. Liebling  

"America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"The pretence is made that to do away with right and wrong would produce uncivilized people, immorality, lawlessness, and social chaos. The fact is that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respected people have escaped from moral chains and are able to think freely."

~ J. A. Stormer  

"The least initial deviation from the truth
is multiplied later a thousandfold."

~ Aristotle  

"A judicial activist is a judge who interprets the Constitution to mean what it would have said if he, instead of the Founding Fathers, had written it."

~ Senator Sam Ervin  

"Men prefer to believe what they prefer to be true."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work."

~ L. Neil Smith  

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper
when he is called upon to act
in accordance with the dictates of reason."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child
becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"The less government we have the better -- the fewer laws and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson