Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Everything you read in the press is absolutely true.
Except the rare event of which you have personal knowledge."

~ Erwin Knoll  

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed."

~ Mark Twain  

"You shake a slogan at an American and
it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone."

~ Will Rogers  

"Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system."

~ Richard Mitchell  

"Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated."

~ Robert C. Savage  

"Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says."

~ Sheldon Richman  

"Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"The sooner we all learn to make a decision
between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be...
Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself."

~ Granville Hicks  

"The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"A prohibition law strikes a blow
at the very principles upon which
our government was founded."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"I think that prohibition of drugs is the most immoral program that the United States has ever engaged in. It's destroyed civil rights at home and it is responsible for thousands of deaths abroad."

~ Milton Friedman  

" 'Extremism' is a word deliberately chosen for its vagueness and used by intellectual slobs who are too desperate, sneaky or lazy to say exactly what they mean. Its only purpose is to deliberately try to confuse the difference between people who are extremely good (usually because of devotion to their principles) with people who are extremely bad. The sleazeballs who use this supposedly scary, yet undefined word are not only trying to smear people of conviction and integrity, but they're also trying to divert attention away from the fact that they are obviously not people of principle themselves."

~ Rick Gaber  

"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

~ Aesop  

"Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn’t kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it’s very difficult to kill, they do it because it's now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung—the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor—coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another."

~ Hannah Arendt  

"Conscience is the most sacred of all property."

~ James Madison