Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Creation comes before distribution or there will be nothing to distribute.
The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary."

~ Ayn Rand  

"If [anyone] can find in Title VII ... any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"The public welfare demands that constitutional cases
must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and
not according to judges’ views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil."

~ Hannah Arendt  

"The love of one's country is a splendid thing.
But why should love stop at the border?"

~ Pablo Casals  

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

~ Steve Biko  

"It is the job of thinking people,
not to be on the side of the executioners."

~ Albert Camus  

"We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living."

~ General Omar Bradley  

"The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed."

~ Gil Bailie  

"These are dangerous times.  When we are afraid, we want to
be protected, and since we cannot protect ourselves against such
horrors as mass murder by bombers, we are tempted to run to
the government, a government that is always willing to trade the
promise of protection for our freedom, which left, as always,
the question: How much freedom are we willing to relinquish for
such a bald promise?
   Already the President was calling for more power, more power
for the FBI.  He wanted a thousand more men.  And he wanted to
use the army, no less, in situations like Oklahoma City.  And he
wanted more power to tap our phones and to invade our privacy. 
He wanted express authority from Congress to infiltrate the fringe
groups and, in short, to snoop and to peer and to spy on the
citizenry, especially those who hold different beliefs from those
that flow in the phlegmatic and murky mainstream of America. 
But the question remains, will we really be safer with a thousand
more, or even a hundred thousand more FBI agents armed with
even greater power to more easily tap our phone that are already
so easily tapped and to break into our homes that are no longer
safe under the much-mangled exclusionary rule?"

~ Gerry Spence  

"To say "I have to" is to speak the language of compulsion, duty, authority -- the language of injunctions imposed on us from without. Objectivism is not a duty ethic, but an ethic of values, the ultimate value being one's own life and happiness. The language of values is "I want" and "I will": I want this, and I will do what it takes to get it."

~ David Kelley  

"[C]ivilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men."

~ Harold J. Laski  

"In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don’t threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others."

~ Mark Skousen