Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank
and file has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice."

~ Albert Einstein  

"A golden bit does not make a better horse."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation,
the first things to be bought and sold are legislators."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men."

~ John Adams  

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern."

~ Lord Acton  

"A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political,
is the lawful power in the individual
to exercise his corresponding rights.
It is greatly favored in law."

~ Henry Campbell Black  

"Freedom is not something that can be given.
Freedom is something people take,
and people are as free as they want to be."

~ James Baldwin  

"As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago."

~ Judge Robert Bork  

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."

~ Edward Bernays  

"Dogma is the convictions of one man
imposed authoritatively upon others."

~ Felix Adler  

"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  

"The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us."

~ Josiah Warren  

"People crushed by law have no hope but from power.
If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws;
and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose
will always be dangerous..."

~ Edmund Burke  

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

~ Aesop