Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as 'free education' is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education -- just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office -- and cannot possibly be separated from political control."

~ Frank Chodorov  

"The greatest danger to liberty today
comes from the men who are most needed
and most powerful in modern government,
namely, the efficient expert administrators
exclusively concerned with what they regard
as the public good."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
Whenever the secular arm is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,
it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling
has been to stifle variety and institute social control."

~ Jack Hugh  

"Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily
present itself to be graded and classified like meat?
No wonder school is compulsory."

~ John Taylor Gatto  

"The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way
in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for
believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the
right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?"

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

~ Bertrand de Jouvenel  

"A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive."

~ Westbrook Pegler  

"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish.
You spoil it with too much poking."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"There is surely no contradiction in saying
that a certain section of the community may be quite competent
to protect the persons and property of the rest,
yet quite unfit to direct our opinions,
or to superintend our private habits."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"While the State exists, there can be no freedom.
When there is freedom there will be no State."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"If you see a man approaching you
with the obvious intent of doing you good,
you should run for your life."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders."

~ Ludwig Von Mises  

"Man exists for his own sake
and not to add a laborer to the State."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson