Pithy
Quotes
In
the battle for freedom, we can call upon the wisdom
of many great minds from the past. On this page we offer
for your edification and perhaps entertainment words
from some of the great advocates of freedom in history.
If you have any quotations you would like to share,
please write to me, wchandlr@mindspring.com.
Please document your quotation. Thank you.
The
majority of all laws are nothing but privileges, that
is, a tribute paid by all to the convenience of some
few. -- Cesare Beccaria, Italian explorer-political
leader, 1738-1794
Whatever
crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name
it may be called. -- John Stuart Mill, English
political philosopher, 1806-1873
The
only way to set people free is to awaken their consciousness
to the fact that they are born free. -- The
Rev. Kirby J. Hensley
Ultimately
the only power to which man should aspire is that which
he exercises over himself. -- Elie Wiesel
One
paradox of police states is that they tend to have lousy
police. -- Stephen Browne, article "An
American in Warsaw" in January 1997 issue of Liberty
magazine
Liberty
is rendered even more precious by the recollection of
servitude. -- Cicero
Governments
create nothing and have nothing to give but what they
have first taken away. -- Winston Churchill
The
purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government
is force. -- John James Ingalls, The New York
World, 1890
Government,
even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in
its worst state, an intolerable one. Government, like
dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of
kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
-- Tom Paine, 1737-1809
The
more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
-- Tacitus, Roman senator and historian, A.D. c. 56-c.
115
Political
power grows out of the barrel of a gun. --
Mao Tse-tung, 1893-1976
Government
is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like
fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never
for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.
-- George Washington, 1732-1799, first president of
the United States of America
The
more laws, the more offenders. -- Thomas Fuller,
M.D.
A
bureaucrat is someone who is afraid that somewhere,
some how, somebody is doing something without permission.
-- Michael Morrison, at a July Fourth picnic in Los
Angeles, 1973
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