Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!"

~ Benito Mussolini  

"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is
Mass Psychology. ...It's importance has been enormously increased by
the growth of modern methods of propaganda ...Although this science
will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the
governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how
its convictions were generated."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"American tyranny has come gradually, like a slowly rising river. Each of us does not realize the danger until the water comes in our door. Until then, it is merely someone else's problem and a problem that we fool ourselves into thinking won't reach us."

~ Charley Reese  

"America, my friends, is the only country in the world
actually founded on liberty -- the only one.
People went to America to be free."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"A general dissolution
of the principles and manners
will more surely overthrow the liberties of America
than the whole force of the common enemy...
While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued;
but once they lose their virtue,
they will be ready to surrender their liberties
to the first external or internal invader...
If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people,
they will never be enslaved.
This will be their great security."

~ Samuel Adams  

"To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression."

~ Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35  

"America would be better off as a country and Americans happier and more prosperous as a people if half of our government boards, bureaus, and commissions were Abolished, hundreds of thousands of our government officials, agents and employees were discharged, and two-thirds of our government regulations, restrictions, inhibitions were removed."

~ Albert J. Beveridge  

"America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others."

~ Alex Epstein  

"America is great because America is good. If America ever ceases to be good it will cease to be great."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville (False)  

"After all, the chief business of the American people is business.
They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing
and prospering in the world."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation."

~ Camille Paglia  

"The essential characteristic of Western civilization
that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified
civilizations of the East was and is its concern
for freedom from the state."

~ Ludwig Von Mises  

"Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit
from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent
from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse
honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances you were born with."

~ Amy Tan