Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Appearances often are deceiving."

~ Aesop  

"Because of what appears to be a lawful command on the surface,
many Citizens, because of their respect for what appears to be law,
are cunningly coerced into waiving their rights due to ignorance."

~ United States Supreme Court  

~ Adam Smith  

"The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is
one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life."

~ John Silber  

"When you have no basis for argument, abuse the plaintiff."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is
to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion,
but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

~ Noam Chomsky  

"The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted."

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg  

"The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."

~ Joan Robinson  

"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!"

~ Charles Baudelaire  

"Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil.
Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it,
he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it,
insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems."

~ Konnilyn G. Feig  

"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety."

~ Louis Kronenberger  

"For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise."

~ Harry Browne  

"The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding."

~ James Madison  

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."

~ Paul Bede Johnson