Quotations
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new
master once in a term of years." Lysander Spooner.
"What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun." Don
Feder, American columnist.
"You are not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you
can't face realty. Wrong is wrong no matter who says it."Malcom X.
"Beware of the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into
every corner and crevice of industry." Thomas Paine. 1737-1809.
"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the
President signs this bill the invisible government by the Monetary Power
will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of
reckoning is only a few years removed. The trusts will soon realize that
they have gone too far even for their own good. The people must make a
declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Power.
This they will be able to do by taking control of Congress. Wall streeters
could not cheat us if you Senators and Representatives did not make a humbug
of Congress... The greatest crime of Congress is its currency system. The
worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill.
The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people
from getting the benefit of their own government." Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr;
1859-1924, Congressman, R-MN; father of the famous aviator. December 22,
1913 the day before President Woodrow Wilson signed the federal reserve act,
in a speech before the House of Representatives.
"I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for
the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect,
than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our
presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could
be stolen by thievery at the ballot box." Thomas Jefferson.
"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies,
too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: 'I, the state, am people.'
everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth." Friedrich
Nietzche1844-2900.
"Offices of public offices love power and are prone to abuse
it." George Washington.
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were
inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the
course of history the main source of mischief and disaster." Ludwig von
Mises. 1881-1973. Economist and social philosopher.
"I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their
jobs ... we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and
unforgivable to this wonderful country... we have given our children a
legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves
elected." John Danforth, R-Missouri, The Arizona Republic, 22 April, 1992.
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely
tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst
dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit
censorship." E. M. Forster, 1879-1970
"What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and
hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit,
inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade.
Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be the creator or
consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our
law rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals-only his
rights." Judith Crist, US Film Critic.
"Whenever people are well informed they can be trusted with
their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract
their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." Thomas
Jefferson, Ltr to Richard Price, 8th January 1789.
"Everything you say can and will be used against you." "Any
lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no
statement to the police under any circumstances." Supreme Court Justice
Robert Jackson's words, Watts vs Indiana, 338 U.S. 49
"All socialism involves slavery.... that which fundamentally
distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy
another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive
taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community As a whole.
The essential question is -how much is he compelled to labor for other
benefit than his own, and much can he labor for his own benefit.?" Herbert
Spencer, 1820-1903, British Author, economist, philosopher.
"The beginning of wisdom is to call all things by their right
names." Ancient Chinese Proverb.
"A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as
good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a
process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in
disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... for it is bravery that is
required to secure freedom." Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice. 13
February 2001.
"A sure sign of genius is that all of the dunces are in a
confederacy against him." Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959. American Architect,
designer, writer, educator.
"Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered
the most [censored] gradual degradation of the idea of liberty." Albert
Camus, 1913-1960
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as
wisdom; and no such as public liberty, without freedom of speech." Cato.
1662 - 1723. John Trenchard 1662-1723. Thomas Gordon 169?-1750.
"Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used
again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge." Sir Francis Bacon,
1561-1626. Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor
"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its
publication is a duty." Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, 1266-1817, French
Author.
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... for my
part, I am willing know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide
for it." Patrick Henry, 1736-1799.
"Any law which is repugnant to the Constitution is null and
void." Marbury vs Madison.
"A true party man hates and despises candour (sic)." Adam Smith,
1723-1790, Scottish philosopher and economist.
"In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who
are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always
then. Some.. Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some
libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local
candidates run without any part identification. No American citizen can
vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and
commitments of each individual candidate." Ben H. Bagdikian, 1920-xxxx,
Armenian born author, dean emeritus of the USC at Berkeley's Graduate School
of Journalism, Editor at the Washing Post. 1982.
"The most important political office is that of private
citizen. Justice Louis Brandeis, 1856-1941, US Supreme Court Justice.
"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of
individual property rights..." Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, author, 'The Virtue of
Selfishness, 1964.
"The life of the nation is secure only While the nation is
honest, truthful, and virtuous." Frederick Douglass, [Frederick Baily]
1818-1895, escaped slave, abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and
later National Era.
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon
constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,
these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it
dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution,
no law, no court can even do much to help it. Whole it lies there it needs
no constitution, no law, no courts to save it." Judge Learned Hand,
1872-1961, Judge, US Court of Appeals.
"Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good
weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public
property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America
from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his
left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when his is
fatigued by lying on his right." Noah Webster; 1758 - 1843; [A pessimistic
comment] Opposed the adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
"People have a right to the truth as they have a right to life,
liberty. And the pursuit of happiness." Frank Norris, 1870-1902
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell
people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair]
(1903-1950)
"The rising power of the United States in world affairs ...
requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and
criticism ... our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as
cheerleaders for 0ur side ... but to help the largest possible number of
people to see the realities." James Reston. 1909-1995. Scottish-born New
York Times journalist, editor, bureau chief, 2 Pulitzer prizes, presidential
medal of freedom.
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one
person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be more justified in
silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing
mankind ... if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of
exchanging error for truth; if wrong. They lose, what is almost a great
benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced
by its collision with error." John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English
philosopher, and economist, on Liberty, 1859.
"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a
horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." Aristophanes, (450-385
BC) Greek comedy writer.
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed
as vultures are needed. But one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so
strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty,
dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of
little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a
vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures??" Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43
BC) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator.
"Crime does not pay..as well as politics." Alfred E. Newman.
MAD Magazine.
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
principles." Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, Humorist.
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own
insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the
vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To
pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or
complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to
watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to
forget." Arundhati Roy.
"*Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last
resort of the minority in* its effort to break loose from the oppression of
the majority. ...the citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his
activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only
choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state." Ludwig von
Mises, (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like
men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
"The essence of government id power; and power, lodged as it
must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." James Madison,
1751-1836.
"Our inalienable rights cannot shield us from our own follies."
Eric Schaub, Editer/Publisher of Liberty Quotes.
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation
with good.' Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi. 1869-1948.
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted
security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for
society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from
responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." Edward Gibbon. 1737-1794.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1909.
"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their
liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite
elect a man [obama] despot over them, do they remain free because the
despotism was of their own making?" Herbert Spencer.1820-1903. British
author, economist, philosopher
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen
from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the
government from falling into error." Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice. US Supreme Court, American Communications
Association vs Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950)
"There is as much chance repealing the 18th Amendment as there
is for a humming-bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument
tied to its tail." Morris Sheppard,1875-1941. US Congressman and US
Senator (D-TX) introduced the 18th Amendment for national alcohol
prohibition.
"Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the
majority of the people choose that they be." Supreme Court of the United
States; Westbrook vs Mihaly 2 Cal. 3d 756.
"In questions of power, then let no more be said of confidence
in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
Thomas Jefferson.
"That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, ... are
absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and to keep
government free; the people ... have aright, in a legal way, to exact a due
and constant regard to them, from their Legislators and magistrates, in
making and executing ... laws." The Vermont Declaration of Rights Article
18th. Chester L McWhorter Sr.
master once in a term of years." Lysander Spooner.
"What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun." Don
Feder, American columnist.
"You are not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you
can't face realty. Wrong is wrong no matter who says it."Malcom X.
"Beware of the greedy hand of government, thrusting itself into
every corner and crevice of industry." Thomas Paine. 1737-1809.
"This act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the
President signs this bill the invisible government by the Monetary Power
will be legalized. The people may not know it immediately, but the day of
reckoning is only a few years removed. The trusts will soon realize that
they have gone too far even for their own good. The people must make a
declaration of independence to relieve themselves from the Monetary Power.
This they will be able to do by taking control of Congress. Wall streeters
could not cheat us if you Senators and Representatives did not make a humbug
of Congress... The greatest crime of Congress is its currency system. The
worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking bill.
The caucus and the party bosses have again operated and prevented the people
from getting the benefit of their own government." Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr;
1859-1924, Congressman, R-MN; father of the famous aviator. December 22,
1913 the day before President Woodrow Wilson signed the federal reserve act,
in a speech before the House of Representatives.
"I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for
the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect,
than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our
presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could
be stolen by thievery at the ballot box." Thomas Jefferson.
"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies,
too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: 'I, the state, am people.'
everything about it is false; it bites with stolen teeth." Friedrich
Nietzche1844-2900.
"Offices of public offices love power and are prone to abuse
it." George Washington.
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were
inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the
course of history the main source of mischief and disaster." Ludwig von
Mises. 1881-1973. Economist and social philosopher.
"I have never seen more Senators express discontent with their
jobs ... we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and
unforgivable to this wonderful country... we have given our children a
legacy of bankruptcy. We have defrauded our country to get ourselves
elected." John Danforth, R-Missouri, The Arizona Republic, 22 April, 1992.
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely
tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst
dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit
censorship." E. M. Forster, 1879-1970
"What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and
hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit,
inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade.
Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be the creator or
consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our
law rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals-only his
rights." Judith Crist, US Film Critic.
"Whenever people are well informed they can be trusted with
their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract
their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights." Thomas
Jefferson, Ltr to Richard Price, 8th January 1789.
"Everything you say can and will be used against you." "Any
lawyer worth his salt will tell the suspect in no uncertain terms to make no
statement to the police under any circumstances." Supreme Court Justice
Robert Jackson's words, Watts vs Indiana, 338 U.S. 49
"All socialism involves slavery.... that which fundamentally
distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy
another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive
taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community As a whole.
The essential question is -how much is he compelled to labor for other
benefit than his own, and much can he labor for his own benefit.?" Herbert
Spencer, 1820-1903, British Author, economist, philosopher.
"The beginning of wisdom is to call all things by their right
names." Ancient Chinese Proverb.
"A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as
good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth through a
process of honest and vigorous debate. Arguments should not sneak around in
disguise, as if dissent were somehow sinister... for it is bravery that is
required to secure freedom." Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice. 13
February 2001.
"A sure sign of genius is that all of the dunces are in a
confederacy against him." Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959. American Architect,
designer, writer, educator.
"Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered
the most [censored] gradual degradation of the idea of liberty." Albert
Camus, 1913-1960
"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as
wisdom; and no such as public liberty, without freedom of speech." Cato.
1662 - 1723. John Trenchard 1662-1723. Thomas Gordon 169?-1750.
"Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used
again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge." Sir Francis Bacon,
1561-1626. Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor
"Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its
publication is a duty." Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, 1266-1817, French
Author.
"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth... for my
part, I am willing know the whole truth; to know the worst; and to provide
for it." Patrick Henry, 1736-1799.
"Any law which is repugnant to the Constitution is null and
void." Marbury vs Madison.
"A true party man hates and despises candour (sic)." Adam Smith,
1723-1790, Scottish philosopher and economist.
"In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who
are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always
then. Some.. Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some
libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local
candidates run without any part identification. No American citizen can
vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and
commitments of each individual candidate." Ben H. Bagdikian, 1920-xxxx,
Armenian born author, dean emeritus of the USC at Berkeley's Graduate School
of Journalism, Editor at the Washing Post. 1982.
"The most important political office is that of private
citizen. Justice Louis Brandeis, 1856-1941, US Supreme Court Justice.
"The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of
individual property rights..." Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, author, 'The Virtue of
Selfishness, 1964.
"The life of the nation is secure only While the nation is
honest, truthful, and virtuous." Frederick Douglass, [Frederick Baily]
1818-1895, escaped slave, abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and
later National Era.
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon
constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,
these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it
dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution,
no law, no court can even do much to help it. Whole it lies there it needs
no constitution, no law, no courts to save it." Judge Learned Hand,
1872-1961, Judge, US Court of Appeals.
"Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good
weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public
property and that Congress shall never restrain any inhabitant of America
from eating and drinking, at seasonable times, or prevent his lying on his
left side, in a long winter's night, or even on his back, when his is
fatigued by lying on his right." Noah Webster; 1758 - 1843; [A pessimistic
comment] Opposed the adding the Bill of Rights to the Constitution.
"People have a right to the truth as they have a right to life,
liberty. And the pursuit of happiness." Frank Norris, 1870-1902
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell
people what they do not want to hear." George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair]
(1903-1950)
"The rising power of the United States in world affairs ...
requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and
criticism ... our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as
cheerleaders for 0ur side ... but to help the largest possible number of
people to see the realities." James Reston. 1909-1995. Scottish-born New
York Times journalist, editor, bureau chief, 2 Pulitzer prizes, presidential
medal of freedom.
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion and only one
person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be more justified in
silencing that person that he, if he had the power, would be in silencing
mankind ... if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of
exchanging error for truth; if wrong. They lose, what is almost a great
benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced
by its collision with error." John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English
philosopher, and economist, on Liberty, 1859.
"You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a
horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner." Aristophanes, (450-385
BC) Greek comedy writer.
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed
as vultures are needed. But one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so
strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty,
dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of
little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a
vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures??" Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43
BC) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator.
"Crime does not pay..as well as politics." Alfred E. Newman.
MAD Magazine.
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of
principles." Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, Humorist.
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own
insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the
vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To
pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or
complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to
watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to
forget." Arundhati Roy.
"*Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last
resort of the minority in* its effort to break loose from the oppression of
the majority. ...the citizen must not be so narrowly circumscribed in his
activities that, if he thinks differently from those in power, his only
choice is either to perish or to destroy the machinery of state." Ludwig von
Mises, (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like
men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." Thomas Paine(1737-1809)
"The essence of government id power; and power, lodged as it
must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." James Madison,
1751-1836.
"Our inalienable rights cannot shield us from our own follies."
Eric Schaub, Editer/Publisher of Liberty Quotes.
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation
with good.' Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi. 1869-1948.
"In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted
security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for
society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from
responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free." Edward Gibbon. 1737-1794.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1909.
"If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their
liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite
elect a man [obama] despot over them, do they remain free because the
despotism was of their own making?" Herbert Spencer.1820-1903. British
author, economist, philosopher
"It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen
from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the
government from falling into error." Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954.
U. S. Supreme Court Justice. US Supreme Court, American Communications
Association vs Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950)
"There is as much chance repealing the 18th Amendment as there
is for a humming-bird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument
tied to its tail." Morris Sheppard,1875-1941. US Congressman and US
Senator (D-TX) introduced the 18th Amendment for national alcohol
prohibition.
"Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the
majority of the people choose that they be." Supreme Court of the United
States; Westbrook vs Mihaly 2 Cal. 3d 756.
"In questions of power, then let no more be said of confidence
in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
Thomas Jefferson.
"That frequent recurrence to fundamental principles, ... are
absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and to keep
government free; the people ... have aright, in a legal way, to exact a due
and constant regard to them, from their Legislators and magistrates, in
making and executing ... laws." The Vermont Declaration of Rights Article
18th. Chester L McWhorter Sr.
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