Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Can we truly expect
those who aim to exploit us
to be trusted to educate us?"

~ Eric Schaub  

"Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects
had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once,
all he has to do now is to 'educate the people'
so that they will have but one common mind to delude."

~ Richard Mitchell  

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

~ Voltaire  

"The battle for the world is the battle for definitions."

~ Thomas Szasz  

"An important art of politicians
is to find new names for institutions
which under old names have become
odious to the public."

~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord  

"Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

~ George Orwell  

"One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy."

~ Ottmar Edenhofer  

"We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols."

~ Henry Morgenthau, Jr.  

"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it.
The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent."

~ James Paul Warburg  

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"A man always has two reasons for what he does --
a good one, and the real one."

~ J. P. Morgan  

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant
pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"

~ Samuel Adams  

"The great trouble with you Americans is that
you are still under the influence of that second-rate --
shall I say third-rate? -- mind, Karl Marx."

~ H. G. Wells  

"A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government."

~ Kenneth Boulding  

"The creation of money exclusively as debt is
the critical, destabilizing flaw in the American Economy."

~ Theodore R. Thoren