Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."

~ Japanese Proverb  

"Any single man must judge for himself whether circumstances warrant
obedience or resistance to the commands of the civil magistrate; we are
all qualified, entitled, and morally obliged to evaluate the conduct of
our rulers. This political judgment, moreover, is not simply or
primarily a right, but like self-preservation, a duty to God. As such it
is a judgment that men cannot part with according to the God of Nature.
It is the first and foremost of our inalienable rights without which we
can preserve no other."

~ John Locke  

"Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice."

~ Léon Blum  

"Television has allowed us to create a common culture, and without it we would not have been able to accomplish our goal."

~ Dr. Morris Janowitz  

"Our ultimate freedom
is the right and power to decide
how anybody or anything
outside of ourselves will affect us."

~ Steven R. Covey  

"Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety
with which error of opinion may be tolerated,
where reason is left free to combat it."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

~ William Randolph Hearst  

"Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"Think of what big governments have gotten up to in this century : not one, but two world wars, the gulag, the holocaust, aerial bombing of civilian population centers, the Berlin Wall, nuclear explosions, the post office. A wicked individual might want these, but he wouldn't have the cash and connections to get them. A villainous corporation could afford them but has to market the products. The Vietnam draft would be a tough sell for even the most fiendish businessmen. "Get shot! Get killed! Get diseases from foreign women who despise you in their hearts!"

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought
Of freedom, in that hope itself possess
All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength,
The scorn of danger, and united hearts,
The surest presage of the good they seek."

~ William Cowper  

"Freedom, morality, and the human dignity
of the individual consists precisely in this;
that he does good not because he is forced to do so,
but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it."

~ Mikhail A. Bakunin  

"I think what motivates people is not great hate,
but great love for other people."

~ Huey P. Newton  

"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."

~ St. Augustine