Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"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  

~ Henry Hazlitt  

~ Joseph A. Schumpeter  

"The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win
and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but
reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional
catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"The shallow consider liberty a release from all law,
from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary,
the potent Law of Laws."

~ Walt Whitman  

"Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule."

~ Plato  

"[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few."

~ John Adams  

"Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"Modern society, based as it is on the division of labor, can be preserved only under conditions of lasting peace."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"I think they've [Labour Government] made the biggest financial mess that any government's ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they're now trying to control everything by other means. They're progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people. "

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"The spirit of resistance to government
is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it to be always kept alive.
It will often be exercised when wrong,
but better so than not to be exercised at all.
I like a little rebellion now and then."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"It is unfortunate, that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, & even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end."

~ Thomas Jefferson