Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The things that will destroy us are:
politics without principle;
pleasure without conscience;
wealth without work;
knowledge without character;
business without morality;
science without humanity;
and worship without sacrifice."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances,
as though they were realities, and are often more influenced
by the things that seem than by those that are."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli  

"Those who can make you believe in absurdities
can make you commit atrocities!"

~ Voltaire  

"The Party System was founded
on one national notion of fair play.
It was the notion that folly and futility
should be fairly divided between both sides."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists.
Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied
to go along with the continuance of things as they are,
and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things,
the world would have known little progress, indeed."

~ Josiah William Gitt  

~ Dr. Ravi Zacharias  

"Dogma is the convictions of one man
imposed authoritatively upon others."

~ Felix Adler  

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions
voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant
has made our generation understand that to choose
one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

~ Aesop  

"The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police."

~ Carl J. Friedrich  

"If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize,
then the first step is to recognize the enemy.
Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy.
The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy.
And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy.
An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization,
which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans."

~ Charley Reese  

"Confronted with such a tight regulation, can man pretend to be free because the tyranny he is subjected to derives from the law? Of course, the legal power is not called "tyranny" since it appears to be established by the general will in the common interest, and since, in any event, occurrences of arbitrary power are infrequent. But a master's equity does not mean that his subjects are not slaves. ... And when their servitude lasts and their thoughts follow their behavior, the state becomes totalitarian and subjection is complete. Since it is legal servitude, the regime is still said to be democratic. Such is the hypocrisy of political language."

~ Georges Ripert  

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

~ Ouida  

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come
to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

~ Ronald Reagan