Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars:
the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained
intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve
that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and
a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in
time a people as base as itself."

~ Joseph Pulitzer  

"In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to
popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give
the facts to their readers."

~ Nelson Antrim Crawford  

"Too many Americans have twisted
the sensible right to pursue happiness
into the delusion that we are entitled
to a guarantee of happiness.
If we don't get exactly what we want,
we assume someone must be violating our rights.
We're no longer willing to write off
some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck."

~ Susan Jacoby  

"What we need to do in this country is make sure the majority of the American people really want their freedoms back again, We have to have people once again believe in liberty, foreign policy that defends America, but is not the policeman of the world. We don't have the right nor the facilities to throw our weight around and tell the rest of the world how to live."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government"

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"Our job is to give people not what they want,
but what we decide they ought to have."

~ Richard Salant  

"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage
by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with."

~ Richard M. Cohen  

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."

~ Edward Bernays  

"When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the [many] believe almost anything you want, and you can guide them."

~ Gore Vidal  

"When even one American -- who has done nothing wrong --
is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth,
then all Americans are in peril."

~ Harry S. Truman  

"Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern,
to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty
to everything that is valid in Americanism."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"America will never be destroyed from the outside.
If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

~ Abraham Lincoln (False)  

"The United States shall guarantee to every State
in this Union a Republican Form of Government."

~ Constitution for the United States  

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend on God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."

~ George Washington