Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control."

~ Jack Hugh  

"The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.’"

~ Richard Bernstein  

"If ... our bureaucratic masters are becoming more akin to Soviet-style or Eastern European counterparts, it was rarely seen as a plus that those central schemers had wonderful intentions with their five-year plans. Such goals as 'job safety,' 'equality,' and freedom from 'discrimination,' depending on their definitions, may be good things for society, but they were never intended to be the business of the federal government."

~ William P. Hoar  

"National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with the democratic order."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"We are socialists, we are enemies, mortal enemies of the present capitalistic economic system with its exploitation of the economically weak, with its unjust wages, with its immoral evaluation of individuals according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and achievement, and we are determined under all circumstances to abolish this system!"

~ Gregor Strasser  

"Socialism is resentment disguised as compassion enforced by tyranny disguised as tolerance."

~ Unknown

"The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd."

~ James Carville (Questionable)

"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Socialism, failing to work as it always does. This time in Venezuela. You talk about giving everybody something free and all of a sudden, there’s no food to eat. And who do you think is the richest person in Venezuela? The daughter of Hugo Chavez. Hello!"

~ Vin Scully  

"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel."

~ Ayn Rand  

"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State."

~ Bertrand de Jouvenel  

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

~ Hillary Clinton  

"Socialism is the philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity."

~ William Howard Taft  

"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy."

~ Chris Hedges