Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"For who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists
to say whether our teeth were aching,
only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and
only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"

~ C. S. Lewis  

"Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds."

~ Dante Alighieri  

"All authority is quite degrading."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls."

~ Father Robert F. Capon  

"It is the common fate of the indolent
to see their rights become prey to the active.
The conditions upon which God
hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance;
which condition if he break, servitude is at once the
consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."

~ John Philpot Curran  

~ Mark Twain  

"When the state intervenes to insure the indoctrination of some doctrine, it does so because there is no conclusive evidence in favor of that doctrine."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"Those in possession of absolute power
can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true,
but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands
the power to decide at each step, the course of his life,
and who lives in a society which does not block
the exercise of that power."

~ Salvador De Madariaga  

"Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man,
I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people."

~ George Mason  

"When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?"

~ Jimmy Durante  

"Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units."

~ Carl Gustav Jung  

"The big thieves hang the little ones."

~ Czech Proverb  

"There is but one law for all, namely,
that law which governs all law,
the law of our Creator,
the law of humanity, justice, equity --
the law of nature, and of nations."

~ Edmund Burke