Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-11-22 Nov 22, 2017Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.~ Frederick DouglassThere are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.~ Karl MarxThe freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.~ George Mason Nov 21, 2017Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.~ John Kenneth GalbraithWherever there’s a disagreement among Republicans, I’m for one of those disagreements. I’m all for it. The president’s with Russia? I’m with John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I’m for NATO! Why? [It’s a] wedge. Wedges have to be schisms, schisms have to be divides.~ Rahm EmanuelFew things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.~ Mark Twain Nov 20, 2017Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.~ Eric HofferA little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second.~ Harry BrowneThe choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson Nov 17, 2017The efficiency of the truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.~ Adolf HitlerEvery major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.~ Ayn RandRepublicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.~ Harry Browne Nov 16, 2017We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with.~ Richard M. CohenThe news media in general are liberals.~ Barbara WaltersThe New York Times is deliberately pitched to the liberal point of view.~ Herman Dismore Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print