Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"In all men is evil sleeping;
the good man is he who will not awaken it,
in himself or in other men."

~ Mary Renault  

"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit,
hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind."

~ St. Peter  

"I hear much of people's calling out to punish the guilty,
but very few are concerned to clear the innocent."

~ Daniel Defoe  

"If we were all to be judged by our thoughts,
the hills would be swarming with outlaws."

~ Johann Sigurjonsson  

"Reputation is character minus what you've been caught doing."

~ Michael Iapoce  

"All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?

~ Herbert Spencer  

"[I]f we won’t choose to pay the price of liberty, then by default we shall suffer the cost of servitude -- whether it be the iron chains of a tyrannical oligarchy or the regulatory chains of unelected, faceless bureaucrats. When we witness our neighbors abused by tyrants, will we skulk away and hope we’re not next? Or will we stand by them and challenge -- as freedom-loving Americans -- the tyranny of lawless leaders."

~ Phil Trieb  

"The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable."

~ U. S. Privacy Study Commission  

"Free enterprise capitalism exists only when people in the private sector are free to pursue their own interests without direction from government. When politicians start passing laws to tell them what to do, or bureaucrats start issuing edicts to tell them what to do, it is no longer capitalism; it's fascism."

~ Rick Gaber  

"The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude."

~ Roger Scruton  

"Man is not free unless government is limited...
As government expands, liberty contracts."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion.
Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment
from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious."

~ Aristotle  

"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience."

~ Doug Larson  

"You can stand tall without standing on someone.
You can be a victor without having victims."

~ Harriet Woods