Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"Hold on, my friends,
to the Constitution and
to the Republic for which it stands.
Miracles do not cluster
and what has happened once in 6,000 years,
may not happen again.
Hold on to the Constitution,
for if the American Constitution should fail,
there will be anarchy throughout the world."

~ Daniel Webster  

"And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"Sentimentality
is a superstructure
covering brutality."

~ Carl Gustav Jung

"It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom.
They fight for pride and power -- power to oppress others.
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors;
they want to retaliate."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"It is always possible to bind together
a considerable number of people in love,
so long as there are other people left over
to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."

~ Sigmund Freud  

"There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way
of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned,
and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely,
the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom,
the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance
while making a display of our apparent knowledge."

~ Roger Bacon  

"There is no greater fallacy than the belief that
aims and purposes are one thing,
while methods and tactics are another...
All human experience teaches that
methods and means cannot be separated
from the ultimate aim."

~ Emma Goldman  

"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."

~ John Lehman  

"The deterioration of every government begins
with the decay of the principles on which it was founded."

~ Charles-Louis De Secondat  

"But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals
which you -- the social reformers -- see, but they may not,
is to deny their human essence,
to treat them as objects without wills of their own,
and therefore to degrade them."

~ Isaiah Berlin  

"I am certain that nothing has done so much
to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom
as the striving after this mirage of social justice."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated
under the shield of law and in the name of justice."

~ Charles de Montesquieu  

"Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions."

~ John Adams  

"The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.
The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots."

~ Elbridge Gerry