Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We should never define libertarian positions in terms coined by liberals and conservatives, nor as some variant of their positions. We are not fiscally conservative and socially liberal. We are libertarians, who believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility on all issues at all times."

~ Harry Browne  

"Appeasers believe that
if you keep on throwing steaks
to a tiger, the tiger
will turn vegetarian."

~ Heywood Hale Broun  

"Underlying most arguments against the free market
is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

~ Milton Friedman  

"Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own."

~ Chinese Proverb  

"The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak
is to support the rights of people you don't agree with."

~ Eleanor Holmes Norton  

"We are all full of weakness and errors,
let us mutually pardon each other our follies.
It is the first law of nature."

~ Voltaire  

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible
and exercise power from behind the scenes."

~ Justice Felix Frankfurter  

"Only the small secrets need to be protected.
The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity."

~ Marshall McLuhan  

"In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to
popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give
the facts to their readers."

~ Nelson Antrim Crawford  

"Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own."

~ John Jay Chapman  

"You can only protect your liberties in this world
by protecting the other man's freedom.
You can only be free if I am free."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."

~ Edmund Burke  

"Because of the diverse conditions of humans,
it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people,
as appropriate and suitable to them,
while the same acts are immoral for others,
as inappropriate to them."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas  

"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism
as it is a merge of state and corporate power."

~ Benito Mussolini (Questionable)  

"Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience,
when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?"

~ Lord Chancellor Thurlow