Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"Force, governmental coercion, is the instrument by which the ethics of altruism -- the belief that the individual exists to serve others -- is translated into political reality."

~ Nathaniel Branden  

"The Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan, 'The public good before the private good,' the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs, 'Serve the people,' and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.'  Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell."

~ Rick Gaber  

"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another."

~ James Madison  

"In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale.
Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"Don't accept your dog's admiration
as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

~ Ann Landers  

"If you look like a rabbit, and act like a rabbit, you will be treated like a rabbit -- prey for all predators."

~ Stony Loft  

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"Books won’t stay banned.
They won’t burn.
Ideas won’t go to jail.
In the long run of history,
the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.
The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
The source of better ideas is wisdom."

~ A. Whitney Griswold  

"The only real security for social well-being
is the free exercise of men’s minds."

~ Harold J. Laski  

~ Robert M. Hutchins  

"Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity."

~ Thomas Sowell  

~ Unknown