Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity."

~ James Madison  

"Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."

~ John Adams  

"A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:
it assumes its own correctness."

~ Walter Bagehot  

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

~ Aesop  

"Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs,
there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right."

~ Lawrence Auster  

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,
or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"Put no faith in salvation through the political order."

~ Augustine of Hippo  

"Liberty is from God;
liberties, from the devil."

~ Berthold Auerbach  

"Taxation with representation ain't so hot either."

~ Gerald Barzan  

"It is a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal."

~ C. S. Lewis  

"It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object."

~ James Madison