Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"To the extent that these [New Deal policies] developed,
they were tortured interpretations of a document
[the Constitution] intended to prevent them."

~ Rexford Tugwell  

"Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force."

~ Samuel Cooke  

"Those who can make you believe in absurdities
can make you commit atrocities!"

~ Voltaire  

"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one,
has become the modern form of despotism."

~ Mary McCarthy  

"There is a de facto “secret government” operating nationally and internationally and involved in the highest circles of the U.S. government, exercising an impact over domestic policies and economics ranging between extreme influence to, at times, outright control. This extreme influence to outright control naturally includes the Presidency. The de facto "secret government," much of whose intellectual -- and financial -- muscle are to be found in the New York office of the CFR, the great tax-free foundations, and certain international firms and corporations."

~ Mike Culbert  

"No truly sophisticated proponent of repression
would be stupid enough to shatter
the façade of democratic institutions."

~ Murray B. Levin  

"The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred,
feel themselves born to ride us."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls."

~ Father Robert F. Capon  

"It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the
safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.
History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty
extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end."

~ Felix Frankfurter  

"Justice without force is impotent,
force without justice is tyranny.
Unable to make what is just strong,
we have made what is strong just."

~ Blaise Pascal  

"If politicians don't respect the law,
why should citizens respect politicians?"

~ Debra Saunders  

"Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have ever maintained.  True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests.  In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.... Thus the entire arsenal of governments - laws, police, soldiers, the courts, legislatures, prisons - is strenuously engaged in "harmonizing" the most antagonistic elements in society."

~ Emma Goldman  

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions
voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant
has made our generation understand that to choose
one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:
it assumes its own correctness."

~ Walter Bagehot