Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I'm never quite sure what you mean by consensus politics. I believe that what most people want in their lives, is what the Conservative Party wants to have for them. I believe that our policies are fundamentally common sense policies. Just let's take taxation for an example. Wherever I go I hear enormous resentment about the amount which people are paying out of their own pay packet in tax. And, this goes right across the income ranges. Socialism started by saying it was going to tax the rich, very rapidly it was taxing the middle income groups. Now, it's taxing people quite highly with incomes way below average and pensioners with incomes way below average. You look at the figure on the beginning of a pay slip, sometimes it can look quite high, look along the slip to the other end, and see how many deductions you've had off, those deductions have increased enormously under Socialism ...
Public expenditure, which they always boast about, is financed out of the pay packet in our pockets. People are saying that they really think too much is being taken out of the pay packet for someone to spend on their behalf, and they'd rather be left with more, and it's now well-known that Socialist Governments put up taxes and Conservative Governments take them down. It's part of our fundamental belief giving the people more choice to spend their own money in their own way."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible
and exercise power from behind the scenes."

~ Justice Felix Frankfurter  

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word 'Nazi' is a German abbreviation for 'National Socialist' (Nationalsozialist) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was 'The National Socialist German Workers' Party' (In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)."

~ Dr. John Joseph Ray  

"In 1883, a small group of Socialists met in London, announcing their intentions of converting the British economic system from capitalism to socialism. This group chose the name 'Fabian Society.' One of the leading members of the Fabian Society, author George Bernard Shaw, perhaps summed it up best when he said, quote: '... Socialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.' "

~ Edgar Wallace Robinson  

"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man,
but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars:
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.
They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business
of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine
for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them.
Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing.
The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B.
In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and
every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"To be sure of hitting the target,
shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target."

~ Ashleigh Brilliant  

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs
in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

~ George Orwell  

"Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

~ George Santayana