Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand
the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and
who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power."

~ Salvador de Madariaga  

"There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty,
only a long staircase where each step down
must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders."

~ Alan K. Simpson  

"The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that
the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession.
I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold:
its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.
If we can undermine these three areas,
America will collapse from within."

~ Josef Stalin  

"Our lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to accept definitions of freedom that are not necessarily consistent with the actuality of being free. Because we have learned to confuse the word with the reality the word seeks to describe, our vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and contradictory meanings smuggled into the language."

~ Butler D. Shaffer  

"When in charge, ponder...
When in trouble, delegate...
When in doubt, mumble."

~ Dr. Jim Boren

"How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!"

~ Samuel Adams  

"It is said that power corrupts,
but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."

~ David Brin  

"I cannot accept, your canon that
we are to judge pope and king unlike other men,
with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ...
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. 

~ Lord Acton  

"Power corrupts. But it does more than that.
Power attracts the corrupt, then corrupts them further."

~ Don Matthews  

"Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom."

~ Louis Lamour  

"Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."

~ Mark Twain