Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility
is more attractive than freedom from restraint.
They are eager to barter their independence
for relief from the burdens of willing,
deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure.
They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives
to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"Freedom is fragile and must be protected.
To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it."

~ Germaine Greer  

"The state spends much time and effort persuading the public that
it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions
are positive rather than negative."

~ Hans Hermann Hoppe  

"Those who are convinced
they have a monopoly on The Truth
always feel that they are only saving the world
when they slaughter the heretics."

~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  

"The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing
man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling."

~ Francois Mauriac  

"No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance."

~ Leonard Schapiro  

"If you give me six lines written by the most honest man,
I will find something in them to hang him."

~ Cardinal Richelieu  

"Lawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge
across which anyone in search of justice has to pass."

~ Jane Bryant Quinn  

"The test for whether one is living in a police state is
that those who are charged with enforcing the law
are allowed to break the laws with impunity."

~ Jon Roland  

"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line.
What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed
group of vigilantes imposing their views on others."

~ Doris Lessing  

"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by
his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."

~ George Orwell  

"Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time are either psychopaths or mountebanks."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels  

"The Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan, 'The public good before the private good,' the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs, 'Serve the people,' and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.'  Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell."

~ Rick Gaber