Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No man is great enough or wise enough
for any of us to surrender our destiny to.
The only way in which anyone can lead us is
to restore our belief in our own guidance."

~ Henry Miller  

"The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is hard business.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

~ Rudyard Kipling  

"Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."

~ The Holy Bible

"A shoe that fits one person pinches another;
there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

~ Carl Gustav Jung  

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment & happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.  

"Man exists for his own sake
and not to add a laborer to the State."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: `I, the state, am the people.'... Everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth. "

~ Friedrich Nietzsche  

"The state remains, as it was in the beginning,
the common enemy of all well-disposed,
industrious and decent men."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The people = government doctrine is equivalent
to political infantilism -- an agreement to pretend
that the citizen's wishes animate each restriction
or exaction inflicted upon him."

~ James Bovard  

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice,
but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

~ Elie Wiesel  

"At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice.
Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion."

~ E. H. Chapin  

"I know no class of my fellowmen,
however just, enlightened, and humane,
which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely
with the liberties of any other class."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character."

~ Frederick W. Faber  

"It used to be the boast of free men that,
so long as they kept within
the bounds of the known law,
there was no need to
ask anybody's permission
or to obey anybody's orders.
It is doubtful whether any of us
can make this claim today."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can ever help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority."

~ Henrik Ibsen