Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The only thing we learn from history
is that we learn nothing from history."

~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel  

"The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence:
wealth without work, pleasure without conscience,
knowledge without character, commerce without morality,
science without humanity, worship without sacrifice,
and politics without principles."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."

~ Plato  

"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."

~ Cesare Pavese  

"Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Few things are more irritating than when someone who
is wrong is also very effective in making his point.”

~ Mark Twain  

"A political convention illustrates the workings of majority rule: If the minority in a party advocate a progressive move which is defeated when put to a vote in the convention, the minority are prohibited from advancing it during the campaign; if this minority refuse to advocate what the convention has decided to be right, they are barred from the platform and press, the cry of majority rule is raised against them, and they are called "traitors to the party;" but if they abandon their progressive ideas and advocate the wishes of the majority they are rewarded with office. Thus majority rule develops the dishonest politician: in order to rule sometime, he consents to being ruled at other times. The desire to rule and the willingness to be ruled ends in degradation; and no one who accepts the principles of equal liberty can endorse majority rule."

~ Charles T. Sprading  

"Moral indignation: jealousy with a halo."

~ H. G. Wells  

"I can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies,
but not the madness of people."

~ Issac Newton  

"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures.... The separate existence of the federal states will not be done away.... The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such law is in itself a limited one."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Questionable)  

"If ... our bureaucratic masters are becoming more akin to Soviet-style or Eastern European counterparts, it was rarely seen as a plus that those central schemers had wonderful intentions with their five-year plans. Such goals as 'job safety,' 'equality,' and freedom from 'discrimination,' depending on their definitions, may be good things for society, but they were never intended to be the business of the federal government."

~ William P. Hoar  

"Inflation is taxation without representation."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Each peso [or dollar] is a contract between the government and the peso holder. That contract guarantees that each peso -- as a unit of value that the holder has worked hard to get -- will be worth as much tomorrow as today. If the government breaks the contract, it's breaking the law. The only role of government in the economy should be to guarantee the integrity of market transactions."

~ Domingo Cavallo  

"Do not separate text from historical background.
If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution,
which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."

~ James Madison