Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"Progressives understand that their program for a government-centered society becomes more plausible the more people believe that work -- individual striving -- is unavailing. Government grows as fatalism grows, and fatalism grows as progressivism inculcates in people the demoralizing -- make that de-moralizing -- belief that they are victims of circumstances."

~ George Will  

"The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence:
wealth without work, pleasure without conscience,
knowledge without character, commerce without morality,
science without humanity, worship without sacrifice,
and politics without principles."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"The brave man inattentive to his duty,
is worth little more to his country than
the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger."

~ Andrew Jackson  

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves
after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us."

~ Marcel Proust  

"Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?"

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."

~ Booker T. Washington  

"Government by idea tends to take in everything,
to make the whole of society obedient to the idea.
Spaces not so governed are unconquered,
beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger."

~ Lord Acton  

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."

~ Thomas Paine  

"As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people."

~ Jeffrey R. Snyder  

"My grandmother wanted me to have an education,
so she kept me out of school."

~ Margaret Mead  

"Reaching consensus in a group is often
confused with finding the right answer."

~ Norman Mailer  

"[I]t is not the source but the limitation of power
which prevents it from being arbitrary."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the State, and calls for an exercise of the power of dissolution."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either."

~ Thomas Paine