Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Integrity has no need of rules."

~ Albert Camus  

"Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them
and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?"

~ Ammon Hennacy  

"What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"The last stage but one of every civilisation,
is characterised by the forced political unification
of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole."

~ Arnold J. Toynbee  

"He alone is free
who lives with free consent
under the entire guidance of reason."

~ Baruch Spinoza  

"Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block
on which the grandiose idea of mankind’s totalization may flounder."

~ Thomas Molnar  

"It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. ... it does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance."

~ Albert Jay Nock  

"Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?"

~ Count Axel Oxenstierna  

"I believe more follies are committed
out of complaisance to the world,
than in following our own inclinations."

~ Mary Wortley Montagu  

"True education makes for inequality;
the inequality of individuality,
the inequality of success,
the glorious inequality of talent, of genius;
for inequality, not mediocrity,
individual superiority, not standardization,
is the measure of the progress of the world."

~ Felix E. Schelling  

"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency
is a dependency of our self esteem. If you need encouragement, pats on
the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge."

~ Fritz Perls  

"In education markets, like the Asian tutoring industry, top teachers are superstars who get to design curricula for thousands or even millions of students and train scores or hundreds of other teachers to use their effective methods. Quality providers expand and are emulated by competitors, and there is a powerful incentive for meaningful innovation. ... One teacher in Korea’s private tutoring sector made $2 million last year because his web-based employer has profit sharing and he’s brilliant at what he does, so he gets tons of students. That’s what should have happened to [Jaime] Escalante. That’s the sort of success that should greet excellence in education at all levels. It doesn’t because we don’t have a market."

~ Andrew J. Coulson  

"None of us would trade freedom of expression
for the narrowness of the public censor.
America is a free market for people
who have something to say, and
need not fear to say it."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history,
whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

~ Thomas Jefferson (False)  

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."

~ William E. Borah