Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Political repression consists of government action
which grossly discriminates against persons or organizations
viewed as presenting a fundamental challenge
to existing power relationships or key governmental policies,
because of their perceived political beliefs."

~ Robert Justin Goldstein  

"But our society -- unlike most in the world -- presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that makes the individual, not government, the keeper of his tastes, beliefs, and ideas; that is the philosophy of the First Amendment; and it is this article of faith that sets us apart from most nations in the world."

~ William O. Douglas  

~ Winston Churchill  

"In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"The doctrine of blind obedience and
unqualified submission to any human power,
whether civil or ecclesiastical,
is the doctrine of despotism,
and ought to have no place
among Republicans and Christians."

~ Angelica Grimke  

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Any power must be an enemy of mankind which
enslaves the individual by power and by force,
whether it arises under the Fascist or the Communist flag.
All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded to the individual."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Watch out for the fellow
who talks about putting things in order!
Putting things in order always means
getting other people under your control."

~ Denis Diderot  

"Who is the fascist? Individualism and the political philosophy of limited government is not only inconsistent with but is the exact opposite of fascism and Nazism. Under fascism and Nazism, the state reigns supreme with absolute power over everyone and all forms of property. It can well be asked: who is the fascist, when the president of the United States and many Democrats and Republicans in congress call for expanded authority for the FBI and other federal security agencies to intrude into the lives of the American citizenry? Who is the fascist, when the call is made for increased power for the FBI to undertake “roving wiretapping” or have easier access to the telephone and credit-card records of the general population? Who is the fascist, when the proposal is made to make it easier for the FBI to investigate and infiltrate any political organization or association because the government views it as a potential terrorist danger?"

~ Richard M. Ebeling  

"The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good."

~ Baltasar Gracian  

"The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely
the problem that concerned the founders of this nation:
how to limit the scope and power of government.
Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom,
come primarily from governmental restrictions
that we ourselves have set up."

~ Milton Friedman  

"In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions
are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;
that they are not superior to the citizen;
that every one of them was once the act of a single man;
every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case;
that they all are imitable, all alterable;
we may make as good; we may make better."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Private capitalism makes a steam engine;
State capitalism makes pyramids."

~ Frank Chodorov  

"... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the new world order ... and will die protesting it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people."

~ H. G. Wells  

"The Legislative has no Right to absolute arbitrary Power over the Lives and Fortunes of the People: Nor can Mortals assume a Prerogative not only too high for Men but for Angels, and therefore reserv’d for the Exercise of the Deity alone."

~ Samuel Adams