Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"All lawful authority comes from God to the people."

~ Constitution of the Irish Free State  

"Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche  

"My faith is that the only soul a man must save is his own."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"Is freedom anything else than
the right to live as we wish?
Nothing else."

~ Epictetus  

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
If that is granted, all else follows."

~ George Orwell  

"To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]"

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"Nothing is less productive
than to make more efficient
what should not be done at all."

~ Peter Drucker  

~ Sidney Hook  

"Force (is) the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"[T]he State's criminality is nothing new and nothing to be wondered at. It began when the first predatory group of men clustered together and formed the State, and it will continue as long as the State exists in the world, because the State is fundamentally an anti-social institution, fundamentally criminal. The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation -- that is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning-and-exploiting class and a propertyless dependent class -- that is, for a criminal purpose. No State known to history originated in any other manner, or for any other purpose. Like all predatory or parasitic institutions, its first instinct is that of self-preservation. All its enterprises are directed first towards preserving its own life, and, second, towards increasing its own power and enlarging the scope of its own activity. For the sake of this it will, and regularly does, commit any crime which circumstances make expedient."

~ Albert Jay Nock  

"[It is a basic principle of a tyrant] to unarm his people of weapons,
money, and all means whereby they resist his power."

~ Sir Walter Raleigh  

"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey,
who is born with the right to command?"

~ Tom G. Palmer  

"Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

~ William Pitt, Sr.