Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States
is one of the wonders of the Western world.
No First World country has ever managed
to eliminate so entirely from its media
all objectivity -- much less dissent."

~ Gore Vidal  

"What's right with America
is a willingness to discuss
what's wrong with America."

~ Harry C. Bauer  

"We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings
and brought all labourers to a common level,
but not so much by the elevation of former slaves
as by reducing the whole working population,
white and black, to a condition of serfdom.
While boasting of our noble deeds,
we are careful to conceal the ugly fact
that by our iniquitous money system
we have manipulated a system of oppression which,
though more refined, is no less cruel than
the old system of chattel slavery."

~ Horace Greeley  

"The public is hedged about by so many goddam
bookkeepers that no time is left in which to produce.
More time is spent in carrying out garbage than in carrying in food."

~ Martin H. Fischer  

"Ruff's Third Law of Economic Dynamics: "An economy in motion tends to stay in motion, and an economy at rest tends to stay at rest. A free market is constantly in motion. A centrally planned market slows until it eventually dies completely."

~ Mike Ruff  

"Free enterprise capitalism exists only when people in the private sector are free to pursue their own interests without direction from government. When politicians start passing laws to tell them what to do, or bureaucrats start issuing edicts to tell them what to do, it is no longer capitalism; it's fascism."

~ Rick Gaber  

"The great trouble with you Americans is that
you are still under the influence of that second-rate --
shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx."

~ H. G. Wells  

"When the people find they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"Thus corporations finally claimed the full rights enjoyed by individual citizens while being exempted from many of the responsibilities and liabilities of citizenship. Furthermore, in being guaranteed the same right to free speech as individual citizens, they achieved, in the words of Paul Hawken, 'precisely what the Bill of Rights was intended to prevent: domination of public thought and discourse.' The subsequent claim by corporations that they have the same right as any individual to influence the government in their own interest pits the individual citizen against the vast financial and communications resources of the corporation and mocks the constitutional intent that all citizens have an equal voice in the political debates surrounding important issues."

~ David C. Korten  

"Look, I think you're tackling public expenditure from the wrong end, if I might say so. Why don't you look at it as any housewife has to look at it? She has to look at her expenditure every week or every month, according to what she can afford to spend, and if she overspends one week or month, she's got to economise the next. Now governments really ought to look at it from the viewpoint of "What can we afford to spend?" They've already put up taxes, and yet the taxes they collect are not enough for the tremendous amount they're spending. They're having to borrow to a greater extent than ever before, and future generations will have to repay. Now, if anyone tells me that a Chancellor of the [Denis Healey] Exchequer can put up public expenditure in two years by -- and it's a tremendous figure -- twenty thousand million pounds, and he doesn't know where to get it down by about three thousand million pounds, then he ought never to have been in charge of the nation's finances ... never!"

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"Government does not tax to get the money it needs;
government always finds a need for the money it gets."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"The Great Depression was not caused by laissez faire but by the actions of well-intended politicians and bureaucrats. The Federal Reserve System, after all, was not created in response to the Great Depression, but in 1913. Soon thereafter it began experimenting with its awesome powers, expanding the money supply during the roaring ‘20s, propping up the pound sterling in London, extending credit so Europeans could buy American agricultural products. All the while, Congress was becoming more and more protectionist. When the Fed reversed policies in 1929 and actually shrunk the money supply by a third over the next three years and Congress culminated its protectionist tendencies with the Smoot-Hawley tariff, the collapse was underway. The fact that Hoover then raised taxes and Roosevelt kept wages artificially high guaranteed the massive unemployment that marked the 1930s. Government caused and exacerbated the Great Depression."

~ Edward H. Crane  

"Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development."

~ Nikita Khrushchev  

"[The task is to] covertly lower the standard of living, the whole social structure, of America so that we can be merged with all other nations."

~ Rowan Gaither