Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Primitive communism ... once existed among all peoples and still survives in many uncivilized countries.  All production in this stage of society is under the direction of chiefs or councils of elders.  No individual responsibility exists."

~ George Winder  

"Liberty ... was a two-headed boon.
There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole
to determine the forms of their own government,
to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws....
There was second, the liberty of the individual man
to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum,
as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."

~ Nelson Mandela  

"Historically, it has been Big Business, not consumers or progressives, who have been primarily responsible for creating most government regulatory agencies. ... Indeed, virtually all regulatory agencies have had the effect of limiting entry and competition in the industries they oversee."

~ Bruce Bartlett  

"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation."

~ Camille Paglia  

"Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world."

~ Earl Warren  

"Education is the best provision for old age."

~ Aristotle  

"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won’t part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn’t sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn’t any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he’d do well to spend more time analyzing what’s the matter with his work, and less time figuring what’s the matter with the public."

~ Berton Braley  

"To be awake is to be alive."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The jury has the right to judge both the law
as well as the fact in controversy."

~ John Jay  

"But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed.
He who molds opinion is greater
than he who enacts laws."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"Power can rarely be wielded effectively over long periods of time unless it is perceived by the community in which it is exercised as a form of legitimate authority, not as mere coercive force."

~ Brian Tierney  

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

~ George Bernard Shaw