Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is always from a minority acting in ways
different from what the majority would prescribe
that the majority in the end learns to do better."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"A free society cherishes nonconformity.
It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric,
have come many of the great ideas."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"To believe is very dull.
To doubt is intensely engrossing.
To be on the alert is to live,
to be lulled into security is to die."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Were we directed from Washington
when to sow and when to reap,
we should soon want bread."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."

~ W. Somerset Maugham  

"Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving."

~ Auntie Mame  

"Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000."

~ F. J. Lucas  

“The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.”

~ James Larkin  

"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less
in what we are free to do than in
what we are free not to do."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without
but an equilibrium which is set up from within."

~ José Ortega y Gasset  

"The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject."

~ Marcus Aurelius  

"It is the part of wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket."

~ Miguel de Cervantes  

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

~ W. Somerset Maugham