Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true."

~ Milton Friedman  

~ Milton Friedman  

~ Milton Friedman  

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true."

~ John Lilly  

"Justice is incidental to law and order."

~ J. Edgar Hoover  

~ Robert E. Lee  

"For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."

~ Bob Wells  

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

~ Justice Antonin Scalia  

"[I]n the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. "

~ Adolf Hitler  

~ James A. Traficant, Jr.  

"A half truth is the worst of all lies,
because it can be defended in partiality."

~ Solon  

"Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated."

~ Robert C. Savage  

"Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do,
but rather for how their acts are defined.
This is why men are more interested in better
justifying themselves than in behaving themselves."

~ Thomas Szasz