Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Righteousness is easy in retrospect."

~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades,
has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right,
the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.
Majorities, of course, are often mistaken.
This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous.
Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions."

~ Alan Barth  

"Censors are infused with the sentiment of moral indignation – a dangerous and misleading sentiment because, by blinding those who voice it to the real reasons for their indignation, it makes them puppets whose fears can be manipulated for ends and purposes they do not foresee or intend."

~ Carey McWilliams

"What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS."

~ Ed Biersmith  

"I am concerned for the security of our great Nation;
not so much because of any threat from without,
but because of the insidious forces working from within."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like
a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities states and nation.
At the head is a small group of banking houses generally referred to as
'international bankers.' This little coterie... run our government for
their own selfish ends. It operates under cover of a self-created
screen...[and] seizes...our executive officers... legislative bodies...
schools... courts... newspapers and every agency created for the public
protection."

~ John F. Hylan  

"The major function of secrecy in Washington is to keep the U.S. people ... from knowing what the nation’s leaders are doing."

~ John Stockwell  

"Every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society -- the farmers, mechanics, and laborers -- who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government."

~ Andrew Jackson  

"The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial
element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since
the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last
truly honorable and incorruptible American president."

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt  

"Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned."

~ Swami Nirmalananda  

"We must not always judge of the generality
of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation."

~ Edmund Burke  

"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

~ Buddha  

"How you can win the population for war: At first, the statesman will
invent cheap lying, that impute the guilt of the attacked nation, and
each person will be happy over this deceit, that calm the conscience.
It will study it detailed and refuse to test arguments of the other
opinion. So he will convince step for step even therefrom that the war
is just and thank God, that he, after this process of grotesque even
deceit, can sleep better."

~ Mark Twain