Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician:
a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner."

~ Aristophanes  

"What orators lack in depth they make up for in length."

~ Charles-Louis de Secondat  

"Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies."

~ Dalton Camp  

"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many',
and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites.' "

~ Larry Hardiman  

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."

~ Sir John Harington  

"If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing."

~ Anatole France  

"What occurs to me in reading their book is that the new American approach to social control is so much more sophisticated and pervasive that it really deserves a new name.  It isn't just propaganda any more, it's 'prop-agenda'.  It's not so much the control of what we think, but the control of what we think about.  When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about.  And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'. "

~ Brian Eno  

"Be not intimidated...
nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties
by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency.
These, as they are often used, are but three different names
for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."

~ John Adams  

"Government of the self was the original basis for republican
government, reflecting the view that civil society was much
more than politics. Society was made up of men and women
who gave order to their lives by entering into associations
on a voluntary basis, quite apart from government, for all
the various reasons of fellowship, philanthrophy,
faith and commerce."

~ Hans L. Eicholz  

"The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control.  Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you."

~ Michael Badnarik  

"Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and
in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high
with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law
and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and
the like."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"Judges ... rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."

~ Justice Warren E. Burger  

"In principle, there are only two fundamental political viewpoints.
That is, two contradictory ends of the 'political spectrum.'
Those two principles are freedom and slavery."

~ Mark Da Cunha