Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I never hurt nobody but myself
and that's nobody's business but my own."

~ Billie Holiday  

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

"In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas."
(Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.)

~ Rupertus Meldenius  

"Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence."

~ Albert Edward Wiggin  

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority,
but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."

~ Marcus Aurelius  

"Whenever you find that you are on the side
of the majority, it is time to reform."

~ Mark Twain  

"There is no such thing as a majority right. Only those who understand and act according to this principle can promote true freedom."

~ Harry H. Hoiles

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The basic problem is simply that the Congress has become professionalized. It has interest much higher than ever existed before in remaining in office. It has a bureaucracy that is serving it. It is much more subject to the power of individualized pressure groups as opposed to the unorganized feelings of the majority of the citizens."

~ Justice Antonin Scalia

"[T]he power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed."

~ Anthony Sutton  

"We hold that what one man cannot morally do,
a million men cannot morally do, and government,
representing many millions of men, cannot do."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn’t kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it’s very difficult to kill, they do it because it's now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung—the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor—coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another."

~ Hannah Arendt  

"Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics
the world would not progress."

~ Frank Gelett Burgess  

"A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Every really new idea looks crazy at first."

~ Alfred North Whitehead