Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The highest result of education is tolerance."

~ Helen Keller  

"The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least."

~ Alan Charles Kors  

"By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will."

~ Adam Weishaupt  

"It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize
that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence
of the nation, that the position of the individual is conditioned solely
by the interests of the nation as a whole."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it.
Do not believe what your teacher tells you
merely out of respect for the teacher.
But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis,
you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit,
the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to,
and take it as your guide."

~ Buddha  

"Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

"Capital punishment is when Washington comes up with a new tax."

~ Van Panopoulos  

"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"Justice in the hands of the powerful is
merely a governing system like any other.
Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,
but of a sly effective order, based entirely on
cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak,
their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery."

~ Georges Bernanos  

"The taxpayer; that's someone who works for the federal government,
but doesn´t have to take a civil service examination."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"How is the government going to get the extra taxes?
Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual?"

~ Will Rogers  

"Families would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support."

~ Lisa Schiffen  

"I don't know if I can live on my income or not -- the government won't let me try it."

~ Bob Thaves  

"Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery
about the rich and the poor should be asked,
'What about the other 90 percent of the people?' "

~ Thomas Sowell