Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Envy is the basis of Democracy."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion
that more than half of the people
are right more than half the time."

~ E. B. White  

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

~ George Santayana  

"Politics is not the art of the possible.
It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"An election is a moral horror,
as bad as a battle except for blood;
a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that
solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is
absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should
he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his
parishoners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is
granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is
denied public office merely because his religion differs from the
president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects
from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the
reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal
principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty,
and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and
assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote;
they depend on the outcome of no elections."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"It's not the hand that signs the laws
that holds the destiny of America.
It's the hand that casts the ballot."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Nothing can so alienate a voter
from the political system as
backing a winning candidate."

~ Mark B. Cohen  

"The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials."

~ Will Rogers  

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

~ H. L. Mencken