Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The history books say that during the Progressive era, government trustbusters reined in business. Nonsense. Progressive 'reforms' -- railroad regulation, meat inspection, drug certification and the rest -- were done at the behest of big companies that wanted competition managed. They knew regulation would burden smaller companies more than themselves. The strategy works."

~ John Stossel  

"There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them."

~ Joseph Joubert  

"National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels  

"No man has ever ruled other men for their own good."

~ George D. Herron  

"A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second."

~ Harry Browne  

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt,
when they degenerate into a populace,
that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.
Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found.
The people themselves become the willing instruments
of their own debasement and ruin."

~ James Monroe  

"Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"If one understands that Socialism is not a “share the wealth” program but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super rich men promoting Socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. Communism, or more accurately Socialism, is not a movement of the down-trodden masses but of the economic elite."

~ Gary Allen  

"As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"

~ William Marcy Tweed  

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked
with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before
they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs,
police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people
out of our lives and went back to common sense."

~ Walter E. Williams  

"All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... ‘We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.’ So they begin to ask: ‘What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.’ "

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"Politicians need human misery. ... Government’s a disease masquerading as its own cure."

~ L. Neil Smith  

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"When the leader is morally weak and his discipline not strict,
when his instructions and guidance are not enlightened,
when there are no consistent rules,
neighboring rulers will take advantage of this."

~ Sun Tzu