Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect."

~ James Madison  

"There is danger from all men.
The only maxim of a free government
ought to be to trust no man living with power
to endanger the public liberty."

~ John Adams  

"Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue."

~ Edmund Burke  

"The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse."

~ Edmund Burke  

"The great inlet by which a colour for oppression
has entered into the world is by one man's pretending
to determine concerning the happiness of another."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once.
It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step."

~ Lord Chesterfield  

"The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State,
including classical Aristotelian and Thomist philosophers,
is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State."

~ Murray N. Rothbard  

"An anarchist is anyone
who doesn't need a cop
to tell him what to do."

~ Ammon Hennacy  

"The mortalist enemy unto knowledge,
and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth,
has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority."

~ Sir Thomas Browne  

"There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"Historians and economists are very good at
creating and perpetuating myths that justify increasing
the power placed in the hands of government."

~ Reuven Brenner  

"Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State,
be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country,
the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the support of any
speculative idea, the State becomes for the time inevitably absolute."

~ Lord Acton  

"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish."

~ Anne Bradstreet  

"Usurpation, the exercise of power not granted, is not legitimized by repetition."

~ Raoul Berger