Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! 
They are spider webs for the rich and mighty,
steel chains for the poor and weak,
fishing nets in the hands of the government."

~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon  

"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"What are the moral convictions most fondly held
by barbarous and semi-barbarous people?
They are the convictions that authority
is the soundest basis of belief;
that merit attaches to readiness to believe;
that the doubting disposition is a bad one,
and skepticism is a sin."

~ Thomas Henry Huxley  

"What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing."

~ Albert Jay Nock  

"The house of delusions is cheap to build
but drafty to live in, and
ready at any instant to fall."

~ A. E. Housman  

"Those wearing Tolerance for a label,
Call other views intolerable."

~ Phyllis McGinley  

"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man!
Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself
in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on
his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery
than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"No free people can lose their liberties
while they are jealous of liberty.
But the liberties of the freest people are in danger
when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes,
worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents."

~ Wendell Phillips  

"A true party-man hates and despises candour."

~ Adam Smith  

"I detest that man,
who hides one thing
in the depths of his heart,
and speaks forth another."

~ Homer  

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime."

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"The skeptic does not mean him who doubts,
but him who investigates or researches,
as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found."

~ Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo  

"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice,
and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."

~ Molière  

"Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be
affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice.
But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the
vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have
a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the
passing years and generations."

~ Thomas Sowell