Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The great trouble with you Americans is that
you are still under the influence of that second-rate --
shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx."

~ H. G. Wells  

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death."

~ James Madison  

"At the end of a century that has seen
the evils of communism, Nazism and other modern tyrannies,
the impulse to centralize power remains amazingly persistent."

~ Joseph Sobran  

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government."

~ George Washington  

"The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of freedom which our fathers left unfinished shall be brought forth with shoutings and cries of grace unto it, when our now drooping Liberty lifts up her head and prospers, happy will he be who can say, with John Milton, "Among those who have something more than wished her welfare, I, too, have my charter and freehold of rejoicing to me and my heirs." "

~ John Greenleaf Whittier  

"There but for the grace of God go I."

~ Rev. George Whitefield  

"In our country, the lie
has become not just a moral category
but a pillar of the State."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive... To be 'cured' against one's will and cured of states which we may not even regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. For if crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime; and compulsorily cured. Even if the treatment is painful, even if it is life-long, even if it is fatal, that will be only a regrettable accident; the intention was purely therapeutic."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"You can never get enough of what you don't really need."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Pitiful is the one who, fearing failure, makes no beginning."

~ Hindu Saying  

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"It is becoming increasingly apparent that many -- arguably most -- of the problems that plague our nation have been aggravated rather than alleviated by federal intervention.
In one area after another, massive infusions of tax dollars have been squandered on false solutions which, when they fail to achieve their stated objectives, are cited to justify even more spending on other futile schemes that result in bigger government.
Examples include programs and laws supposedly intended to reduce racial animosity which have instead heightened race-related tensions;
welfare schemes that, rather than reducing poverty, have enticed millions of Americans to become dependent on Washington for their daily bread;
federal funding (and control) of education, which has spawned a monumental education crisis;
a "war" on drugs which has done little to curb drug traffic, but which has eroded many personal liberties;
a health-care finance system that has deteriorated as government meddling and regulation have increased;
and a masochistic immigration policy larded with false "solutions" that, while failing to stop the inflow of illegal aliens, have paved the way for further government intrusion into the lives of nearly all Americans."

~ Robert W. Lee