Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world;
and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered."

~ John Locke  

"Unrighteous fortune seldom spares the highest worth; no one with safety can long front so frequent perils. Whom calamity oft passes by she finds at last."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are."

~ Proverb  

"At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted."

~ Eric Idle  

"Character assassination is at once
easier and surer than physical assault;
and it involves far less risk for the assassin.
It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again,
and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero
in the country of his victims."

~ Alan Barth  

"Any person or any so-called 'political spectrum' that equates live-and-let-livers with control freaks is even more evil than the worst control freaks themselves."

~ Bert Rand  

"The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club."

~ Dave Barry  

"When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli  

"Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast."

~ Viktor Frankyl  

"I want for our country enough laws to restrain me from injuring others,
so that these laws will also restrain others from injuring me.
I want enough government, with enough constitutional safeguards,
so that this necessary minimum of laws will be applied equitably
to everybody, and will be binding on the rulers as well as those ruled.
Beyond that I want neither laws nor government to be imposed on our people
as a means or with the excuse of protecting us from catching cold,
or of seeing that we raise the right kind of crops,
or of forcing us to live in the right kind of houses or neighborhoods,
or of compelling us to save money or to spend it,
or of telling us when or whether we can pray.
I do not want government or laws designed for
any other form of welfarism or paternalism,
based on the premise that government knows best
and can run our lives better than we can run them ourselves.
And my concept of freedom, and of its overwhelming importance,
is implicit in these aspirations and ideals."

~ Robert Welch  

"It is not enough to do your best;
you must know what to do, and THEN do your best."

~ W. Edwards Deming  

"The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the "King's Bank" to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave."

~ Louis McFadden  

"It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time."

~ Mignon McLaughlin  

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men
shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots
to prevent its ruin."

~ Samuel Adams