Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"For this future emancipation, we have to rule out ideologies that aim at reinforcing the state, the police and controls in general, and at reducing liberty."

~ André Thirion  

"Freedom of thought is the only guarantee
against an infection of people by mass myths,
which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues,
can be transformed into bloody dictatorships."

~ Andrei Sakharov  

"Liberty's view of the government could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it works, work with it.
If it doesn't, work against it.
If it works you over, abolish it."

~ Angel Shamaya  

"True education makes for inequality;
the inequality of individuality,
the inequality of success,
the glorious inequality of talent, of genius;
for inequality, not mediocrity,
individual superiority, not standardization,
is the measure of the progress of the world."

~ Felix E. Schelling  

"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency
is a dependency of our self esteem. If you need encouragement, pats on
the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge."

~ Fritz Perls  

"To change masters is not to be free."

~ Jose Marti y Perez  

~ Daniel Webster  

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

~ David Reisman  

"The most dangerous man, to any government,
is the man who is able to think things out for himself,
without regard to prevailing superstition or taboo."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen'
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive."

~ Robert Louis Stevenson  

"By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good."

~ Adam Smith  

"The work of the individual
still remains the spark
that moves mankind forward."

~ Igor Sikorsky  

"The only part of the conduct of anyone for which
he is amenable to society is that which concerns others.
In the part which merely concerns himself,
his independence is, of right, absolute.
Over himself, over his own body and mind,
the individual is sovereign."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private
affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble,
through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain
official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will
lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much
of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or
German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him
when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die,
and, in time, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the
tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to
paradise."

~ Mark Twain