Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Education -- compulsory schooling, compulsory learning --
is a tyranny and a crime against the human mind and spirit.
Let all those escape it who can, any way they can."

~ John Holt  

"When it is a duty to worship the sun
it is pretty sure to be a crime
to examine the laws of heat."

~ John Viscount Morley  

"If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education,
advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Our constitutions purport to be established
by 'the people,' and, in theory, 'all the people'
consent to such government as the constitutions authorize.
But this consent of 'the people' exists only in theory.
It has no existence in fact.
Government is in reality established by the few;
and these few assume the consent of all the rest,
without any such consent being actually given."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

"Of all the tyrannies on human kind
the worst is that which persecutes the mind."

~ John Dryden  

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

~ Plato  

"False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil."

~ Socrates  

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators,
after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."

~ Alan Corenk  

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

~ Jack Hugh  

"Censorship is telling a man
he can't have a steak
just because a baby can't chew it."

~ Mark Twain  

"That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude."

~ Alexander Haig  

"History is an account mostly false,
of events mostly unimportant,
which are brought about by rulers,
mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."

~ Benjamin Disraeli