Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Force and reason --
which last is the essence of the moral act --
are at the two opposite poles.
The one who compels his neighbor...
treats him, not as a being with reason,
but as an animal in whom reason is not."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"And here we encounter the seeds of government disaster and collapse --
the kind that wrecked ancient Rome and every other civilization
that allowed a sociopolitical monster called the welfare state to exist."

~ Barry Goldwater  

"If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding
on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens:
Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions,
or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?"

~ Cat Farmer  

"A family member asked my wife, "Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?" My wife gave this response: "Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school, walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see that you think our son should emulate." "

~ Manfred B. Zysk  

"Perhaps I can summarise it best by saying this -- Nations that have pursued equality, like the Iron Curtain countries, I think have finished up with neither equality, nor liberty. Nations, which like us, in the past have pursued liberty, as a fundamental objective, extending it to all, have finished up with liberty, human dignity, and far fewer inequalities than other people."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"The National Education Association believes that
home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot
provide the student with a comprehensive education experience."

~ National Education Association Resolution  

"As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence."

~ Jerry Brown  

~ John Dewey  

"In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek
in high school to teaching Remedial English in college."

~ Joseph Sobran  

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

~ Josef Stalin  

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished ... The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.”

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte  

"People who make careers out of helping others --
sometimes at great sacrifice, often not --
usually don't like to hear that those others might get along fine,
might even get along better, without their help."

~ John Holt  

"The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real."

~ John Taylor Gatto