Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

~ Albert Camus

"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"Freedom is risky.
Nature makes no promises."

~ Eric Schaub  

"My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people:
those who work and those who take the credit.
He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was less competition there."

~ Indira Gandhi  

"Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony."

~ Lao-Tzu  

~ Rick Gaber  

"You can stand tall without standing on someone.
You can be a victor without having victims."

~ Harriet Woods  

"The foundation of individualism lies in one's moral right to pursue one's own happiness. This pursuit requires a large amount of independence, initiative, and self-responsibility. But true individualism entails cooperating with others through trade, which facilitates the pursuit of each party's happiness, and which is carried out not just on the level of goods but on the level of knowledge and friendship. Trade is essential for life; it provides one with many of the goods and values one needs. Creating an environment where trade flourishes is of great importance and great interest for the individualist."

~ Shawn E. Klein  

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force,
and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer."

~ H. Beam Piper  

"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion;
it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others."

~ Alex Epstein  

"The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin