Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The basic problem is simply that the Congress has become professionalized. It has interest much higher than ever existed before in remaining in office. It has a bureaucracy that is serving it. It is much more subject to the power of individualized pressure groups as opposed to the unorganized feelings of the majority of the citizens."

~ Justice Antonin Scalia

"The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes."

~ Lady Marguerite Blessington  

"And the so-called sovereigns, in these different governments, are
simply the heads, or chiefs, of different bands of robbers and murderers."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"The germ of dissolution of our federal government is in ... the federal judiciary; an irresponsible body (for impeachment is scarcely a scare-crow), working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little today and a little tomorrow, and advancing it’s noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. ...when all government... in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"It takes a very long time to learn that a courtroom
is the last place in the world for learning the truth."

~ Alice Koller  

"Psychologically, it is important to understand that the simple fact of being interviewed and investigated has a coercive influence. As soon as a man is under cross-examination, he may become paralyzed by the procedure and find himself confessing to deeds he never did. In a country where the urge to investigate spreads, suspicion and insecurity grow."

~ Joost A. Merloo  

"The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle."

~ George Orwell  

"Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government, a bureaucratic elite which believes our Constitution is outmoded."

~ Senator William Jenner  

"Politicians never accuse you of ‘greed’ for wanting other people’s money—only for wanting to keep your own money."

~ Joseph Sobran  

"The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes
consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine."

~ Lao-Tzu  

"Public Choice theory, if nothing else, has taught economists to consider the state as it is, not as it should be in a dream world: the state is a potential tyrant, not a benevolent God."

~ Pierre Lemieux