Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"There is no subjugation so perfect
as that which keeps the appearance of freedom
for in that way one captures volition itself."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

"Whoever controls the media,
controls the mind."

~ Jim Morrison  

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"A popular government without popular information
or the means of acquiring it
is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance:
And a people who mean to be their own Governors,
must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

~ James Madison  

"The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"One of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and
the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with,
and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth
of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use
after they escape."

~ Will Rogers  

"Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching."

~ Jim Stovall  

"[W]henever the Legislators endeavor to take away, and destroy the Property of the People, or to reduce them to Slavery under Arbitrary Power, they put themselves into a state of War with the People, who are thereupon absolved from any farther Obedience, and are left to the common Refuge, which God hath provided for all Men, against Force and Violence. Whensoever therefore the Legislative shall transgress this fundamental Rule of Society; and either by Ambition, Fear, Folly or Corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves, or put into the hands of any other an Absolute Power over the Lives, Liberties, and Estates of the People; By this breach of Trust they forfeit the Power, the People had put into their hands, for quite contrary ends, and it devolves to the people, who have a Right to resume their original Liberty."

~ John Locke  

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men;
the rest love not freedom, but license."

~ John Milton  

"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  

"The public must be put in its place,
so that it may exercise its own powers,
but no less and perhaps even more,
so that each of us may live free
of the trampling and the roar
of a bewildered herd."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"Unlimited Power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it."

~ William Pitt, Sr.  

"Volumes can be and have been written about
the issue of freedom versus dictatorship,
but, in essence, it comes down to a single question:
do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals
and to rule them by physical force?"

~ Ayn Rand  

"During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power..."

~ Edward Alsworth Ross  

"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche