Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily
in preventing the division of the attention of a people,
and always in concentrating it on a single enemy."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats."

~ Harry Browne  

"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage
by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with."

~ Richard M. Cohen  

"The news media in general are liberals."

~ Barbara Walters  

"The New York Times is deliberately
pitched to the liberal point of view."

~ Herman Dismore  

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism … The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty."

~ George Washington  

"Our republic and its press will rise and fall together."

~ Joseph Pulitzer  

"Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak,
or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press,
as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable."

~ James Madison  

"Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"I am for the First Amendment
from the first word to the last.
I believe it means what it says."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Restriction of free thought and free speech
is the most dangerous of all subversions.
It is the one un-American act
that could most easily defeat us."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind."

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley  

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson