Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The more laws the more offenders."

~ Dr. Thomas Fuller  

"It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to Socialism."

~ Karl Marx  

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having
the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

~ Douglas Adams  

"I begin to think,
that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....
Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."

~ Abigail Adams  

"The one thing
that doesn't abide by majority rule
is a person's conscience."

~ Harper Lee  

"One evening, when I was yet in my nurse’s arms, I wanted to touch the
tea urn, which was boiling merrily... My nurse would have taken me away
from the urn, but my mother said 'Let him touch it.' So I touched it --
and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty."

~ John Ruskin  

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

~ Proverb  

"A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"I cannot accept, your canon that
we are to judge pope and king unlike other men,
with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ...
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

~ Lord Acton  

"The highest proof of virtue is
to possess boundless power without abusing it."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"Power never takes a back step -- only in the face of more power."

~ Malcolm X  

"It is said that power corrupts,
but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."

~ David Brin  

"It is in the character of very few men
to honor without envy a friend who has prospered."

~ Aeschylus  

"Compelling a man by law to pay his money
to elect candidates or advocate law or doctrines he is against
differs only in degree, if at all, from compelling him by law
to speak for a candidate, a party, or a cause he is against.
The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the
people of this country free to think, speak, write and
worship as they wish, not as the Government commands."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black