Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"People who make careers out of helping others --
sometimes at great sacrifice, often not --
usually don't like to hear that those others might get along fine,
might even get along better, without their help."

~ John Holt  

"All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

~ John Locke  

"The highest manifestation of life consists in this:
that a being governs its own actions.
A thing which is always subject to the direction
of another is somewhat of a dead thing."

~ Saint Thomas Aquinas  

"The man who asks of freedom
anything other than itself
is born to be a slave."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

~ Bertrand de Jouvenel  

"Democracy is essentially coercive. The winner gets to use public authority to impose their policies on the losers."

~ John Chubb  

"Whatever power you give politicians and bureaucrats to use against other people will eventually be used by future politicians and bureaucrats against you."

~ Michael Boldin  

"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground:
That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution,
nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the
people' (10th Amendment). To take a single step beyond the boundaries
thus specifically drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take
possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to any
definition."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Among the several cloudy appellatives
which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment,
there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion
than the word 'Order'."

~ Jeremy Bentham  

"If the author of the Declaration of Independence were to utter such a sentiment today, the Post Office Department could exclude him from the mail, grand juries could indict him for sedition and criminal syndicalism, legislative committees could seize his private papers ... and United States Senators would be clamoring for his deportation that he ... should be sent back to live with the rest of the terrorists."

~ Frank I. Cobb  

"There are two kinds of restrictions on human liberty --
the restraint of law and that of custom.
No written law has ever been more binding than
unwritten custom supported by popular opinion."

~ Carrie Chapman Catt  

"The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behind that drift of law there is a far more potent force of growing custom, and under that custom there is a natural philosophy which erects conformity into the noblest of virtues and the free functioning of personality into a capital crime against society."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"In order to become the master,
the politician poses as the servant."

~ Charles de Gaulle  

"Quis costodiet ipsos custodes?"

("Who will watch the watchers?")

~ Juvenal  

"For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places."

~ The Holy Bible