Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A democracy is a government in the hands of men
of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments."

~ Aristotle  

"Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy,
nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism."

~ Fisher Ames  

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

~ James Madison  

"Democracy is the theory that the common people
know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Institutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later,
destroy liberty or civilization or both."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people may
take away the rights of the other forty-nine."

~ Thomas Jefferson (Questionable)  

"Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations."

~ Charles S. Maier  

"Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me -- and in the end, that is a man's duty."

~ Helmuth James  

"This manual of the Communist Party
should be in the hands of every loyal American,
that they may be alerted to the fact that
it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered."

~ Kenneth Goff  

"During a war, news should be given out
for instruction rather than information."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels  

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States, whatever the pretensions of politicians, pedagogues, and other such mountebanks, and that is its aim everywhere else...Their purpose, in brief, is to make docile and patriotic citizens, to pile up majorities, and to make John Doe and Richard Doe as nearly alike, in their everyday reactions and ways of thinking, as possible."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"According to Gestapo records...
they had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens
since the citizens themselves were more than willing
to do their spying for them."

~ Kort E. Patterson  

"Men willingly believe what they wish."

~ Gaius Julius Caesar  

"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact
that the entire world agrees with it,
nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it."

~ Maimonides  

"Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone else's opinions,
their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

~ Oscar Wilde