Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -­ kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour ­- with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"From the saintly and single-minded idealist
to the fanatic is often but a step."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"Never do anything against conscience
even if the state demands it."

~ Albert Einstein  

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."

~ Samuel Adams  

"Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government."

~ Edward Abbey  

"Men in authority will always think that
criticism of their policies is dangerous.
They will always equate their policies with
patriotism, and find criticism subversive."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom
must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."

~ Thomas Paine  

"The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it."

~ Elmer Davis  

"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived."

~ General George S. Patton, Jr.  

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant
as a young man who has just discovered
an old idea and thinks it is his own."

~ Sydney J. Harris  

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has
which keeps it from betting on people."

~ W. C. Fields  

"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

~ Adlai E. Stevenson II