Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Everything is backwards;
everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health,
lawyers destroy justice,
universities destroy knowledge,
governments destroy freedom,
the major media destroy information,
and religions destroy spirituality."

~ Michael Ellner  

~ Mignon McLaughlin  

~ Philip Wylie  

~ Albert Einstein  

"There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader
if he is also to answer to his own conscience."

~ Hartley Shawcross  

"Justice, being violated, destroys;
justice, being preserved, preserves:
therefore, justice must not be violated,
lest violated justice destroy us."

~ Manusmriti  

"The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great.
They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength;
ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition.
This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind;
and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace,
as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs,
and the power to assert the former or redress the latter.
I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government,
Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws,
Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe."

~ John Adams  

"Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward."

~ Patricia Sampson  

"I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden."

~ Richard Rumbold  

"By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."

~ Adam Smith  

"The work of the individual
still remains the spark
that moves mankind forward."

~ Igor Sikorsky  

"The problem is to find a form of association
which will defend and protect with the whole common force
the person and goods of each associate,
and in which each, while uniting himself with all,
may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions."

~ John Enoch Powell  

"He alone is free
who lives with free consent
under the entire guidance of reason."

~ Baruch Spinoza