Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I've never had a problem with drugs.  I've had problems with the police."

~ Keith Richards  

~ Milton Friedman  

"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the Nazis - with the explanation that they could later fight the Nazis for power, but first they had to help destroy their common enemy: capitalism and its parliamentary form of government."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!"

~ Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland  

"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going,
and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,
which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use -
which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy,
until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it
presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came
by it. Look at it in politics."

~ Mark Twain  

"Those who formally rule take their signals and commands not from the electorate as a body, but from a small group of men. This group will be called the Establishment. It exists even though that existence is stoutly denied. It is one of the secrets of the American social order... A second secret is the fact that the existence of the Establishment - the ruling class - is not supposed to be discussed."

~ Arthur S. Miller  

"When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man'
they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to
'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody
who is going to vote for them."

~ Franklin P. Adams  

"Whatever power you give politicians and bureaucrats to use against other people will eventually be used by future politicians and bureaucrats against you."

~ Michael Boldin  

"People are tired of liberty.
They have had a surfeit of it.
Liberty is no longer a chaste and austere virgin...
Today’s youth are moved by other slogans...
Order, Hierarchy, Discipline."

~ Benito Mussolini  

"Underlying most arguments against the free market
is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

~ Milton Friedman  

"You have to remember, rights don’t come in groups we shouldn’t have ‘gay rights’; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn’t have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do;
to most it means not to do what they do not want to do.
It is perhaps true that those who can grow
will feel free under any condition."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"[T]he courts are so willing to assume that anything that is predominantly black must be inferior.... The mere fact that a school is black does not mean that it is the product of an unconstitutional violation."

~ Justice Clarence Thomas