Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"O liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!
[Fr., O liberte! que de crimes on commet dans ton nom!]"

~ Madame Jeanne Marie Phlipon de La Platiere Roland  

"Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution."

~ Orville Browning  

"The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems."

~ Roger Levian  

"Our lives improve only when we take chances --
and the first and most difficult risk we can take
is to be honest with ourselves."

~ Walter Truett Anderson  

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"Liberty is a slow fruit."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the rich of this country: the military-industrial complex, the bankers, the foreign dictators, it's totally out of control. [...] This idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can't create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"Monetary policy today is guided by little more than government fiat -- by the calculations, often mistaken economic theories, and whims of central bankers or, even worse, politicians. Under such a regime, inflation of three or four percent annually has come to be viewed as a stellar monetary performance. However, under a more sound monetary system -- i.e., a gold standard -- such increases in the general price level would be seen as wildly inflationary."

~ Raymond J. Keating  

"Cultivators of the earth
are the most valuable citizens."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind."

~ Lord Byron  

"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

~ Mark Twain  

"You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the people -- and, alas, their folly with it. But if there is freedom, folly will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive."

~ William Allen White  

"How bad do things have to get before you do something? Do they have to take away all your property? Do they have to license every activity that you want to engage in? Do they have to start throwing you on cattle cars before you say “now wait a minute, I don’t think this is a good idea.” How long is it going to be before you finally resist and say “No, I will not comply. Period!” Ask yourself now because sooner or later you are going to come to that line, and when they cross it, you’re going to say well now cross this line; ok now cross that line; ok now cross this line. Pretty soon you’re in a corner. Sooner or later you’ve got to stand your ground whether anybody else does or not. That is what liberty is all about."

~ Michael Badnarik  

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.
[Ger., Frei athmen macht das Leben nicht allein.]"

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe