Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything."

~ Josef Stalin  

"Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed."

~ Josef Stalin  

"The press must grow day in and day out --
it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon."

~ Josef Stalin  

"Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"What does anti-Semitism have to do with socialism? I would put the question this way: What does the Jew have to do with socialism? Socialism has to do with labor. When did one ever see him working instead of plundering, stealing and living from the sweat of others? As socialists we are opponents of the Jews because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels  

"Those who can make you believe in absurdities
can make you commit atrocities!"

~ Voltaire  

"A man is none the less a slave
because he is allowed to choose
a new master once in a term of years."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"Politics is not the art of the possible.
It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"To govern according to the sense and agreement
of the interests of the people is
a great and glorious object of governance.
This object cannot be obtained but through
the medium of popular election,
and popular election is a mighty evil."

~ Edmund Burke  

"The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state."

~ Edmond Cahn  

"There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press… and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs."

~ Eugene McCarthy  

"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free.
Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this;
no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."

~ William Godwin  

"He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of
the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should
infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections."

~ John Adams  

"When all government, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the Center of all Power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

~ Thomas Jefferson