Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Force always attracts men of low morality."

~ Albert Einstein  

"They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way."

~ Casey Stengel  

"The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

~ Milton Friedman  

~ H. L. Mencken  

"'Balanced' is a code for 'denied':
a right to free speech that must be 'balanced'
against so exhaustive a list of other supposed
values means a right that can be exercised
only when those in power judge that the
speech in question is innocuous to them."

~ Ronald Dworkin  

"Every reform, however necessary,
will by weak minds be carried to an excess,
that itself will need reforming."

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge  

"Power may be at the end of a gun,
but sometimes it's also
at the end of the shadow
or the image of a gun."

~ Jean Genet  

"Thus arbitrary power will have divided men
of superior intelligence into two groups:
the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt..."

~ Benjamin Constant  

"The right of a citizen to bear arms,
in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute.
He does not derive it from the State government.
It is one of the high powers delegated directly to the citizen,
and is excepted out of the general powers of government.
A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it,
because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power."

~ Cockrum v. State  

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"[R]estricting arms to the military and police eviscerates the principle that power should flow from the people to government, and turns the government into a master rather than a servant."

~ Robert Dowlut  

"Anyone who confuses liberty lovers with nazis or other fascists is waaaayy too stupid (or evil) to deserve respect."

~ Bert Rand  

"Constitutions are made of paper;
Bayonets are made of steel."

~ French Aphorism  

"One sword keeps another in the sheath."

~ George Herbert  

"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise."

~ Harry Browne