Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Indeed, the ABA [American Bar Association] is truly a creature of these post-modern times. Its governing members view the political sphere and judicial sphere as one in the same, and worship raw power as the ultimate and only currency in social transactions. The modern ABA thus has embraced an ideology that views the rule of law as a mere extension of politics, and in a self-fulfilling confirmation of that view, conflates law and politics with unashamedly liberal policy prescriptions."

~ Ray Gifford  

"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The tyranny of the many would be when
one body takes over the rights of others, and then
exercises its power to change the laws in its favor."

~ Voltaire  

"Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling
has been to stifle variety and institute social control."

~ Jack Hugh  

"Give me four years to teach the children and
the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"There are only two places in the world where
time takes precedence over the job to be done.
School and prison."

~ William Glasser  

"We should not believe that because ours is a freer, more democratic society, the same imprinting procedure has not occurred even here, in America. Every generation of school-age children has imprinted upon it a politically correct ideology concerning America's past and the sanctity of the role of the state in society. Practically every child in the public school system learns that the "robber barons" of the 19th century exploited the common working man; that unregulated capitalism needed to be harnessed by enlightened government regulation beginning in the Progressive era at the turn of the century; that Wild Wall Street speculation was a primary cause of the Great Depression; that only Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal saved America from catastrophe; and that American intervention in foreign wars has been necessary and inevitable, with the United States government required to be a global leader and an occasional world policeman."

~ Jacob G. Hornberger  

"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."

~ John Ruskin  

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

~ Mark Twain  

"Search for the truth
is the noblest occupation of man;
its publication is a duty."

~ Anne Louise Germaine de Stael  

"Ever since I was a child
I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
To me, the function and duty of a quality human being
is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."

~ Bruce Lee  

"Education is a private matter between the person
and the world of knowledge and experience,
and has little to do with school or college."

~ Lillian Smith  

"The freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament."

~ The English Bill Of Rights  

"Freedom had been hunted round the globe;
reason was considered as rebellion;
and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.
But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks,
and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession."

~ Thomas Sowell