Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

~ Noah Webster  

"Destroy the family, you destroy the country."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."

~ William Shakespeare  

"What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin’s communism and Mussolini’s fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure."

~ Leonard E. Read  

"The Left/Right scale is a misleading way of comparing political systems. It doesn't measure anything."

~ Marshall Fritz  

"If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities."

~ Paul Bede Johnson  

"It was not the tycoons of big business, it was not the working classes, it was the intellectuals who reversed the trend toward political freedom and revived the doctrines of the absolute State, of totalitarian government rule, of the government's right to control the lives of the citizens in any manner it pleases.  This time, it was not in the name of the "divine right of kings," but in the name of the divine right of the masses.  The basic principle was the same: the right to enforce at the point of a gun the moral doctrines of whoever happens to seize control of the machinery of government."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits we gather from it."

~ James Madison  

"The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the land and naval forces, as first general and admiral ... while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies—all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking."

~ J. C. Watts, Jr.  

"If I give you a forty five percent chance at lethal injection, a fifty percent chance at the electric chair, and a five percent chance for escape which are you going to vote for? The electric chair, because you're likely to win?"

~ Michael Badnarik  

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself."

~ Michel de Montaigne