Liberty Quotes

Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress ofcorpses.

~ Neil Gaiman

Love of liberty, the refusal to accept your soul's enslavement, not even in exchange for paradise; stalwart games over and above love and pain, over and above death; smashing even the most sacrosant of the molds when they are unable to contain you any longer - these are the great cries of Crete. (Report to Greco)

~ N. Kazantzakis

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

~ Alexander Hamilton

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Some capitalism suffers from cronyism. All of socialism is perverted by the crony statism of the powerful few.

~ A.e. Samaan

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion.

~ A.e. Samaan

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

~ A.e. Samaan

Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ( “If he doesn't play ball “ )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.

~ A.e. Samaan

Despots are elected and deposed.Laws are passed and repealed.Nations rise and fall.Individual liberty is eternal.

~ A.e. Samaan

Statism is political fashion.Individual liberty is eternal.

~ A.e. Samaan

Socialism is group-think. How uninformed in history do you have to be to advocate for group-think??

~ A.e. Samaan

Meanwhile, allow me to be me ….in all forms.

~ Faith Tigere

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

~ A.e. Samaan

Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule of One, whom all obey, Than to let clamorous demagogues betrayOur freedom with the kiss of anarchy.Wherefore I love them not whose hands profane Plant the red flag upon the piled-up street For no right cause, beneath whose ignorant reignArts, Culture, Reverence, Honor, all things fade, Save Treason and the dagger of her trade, Or Murder with his silent bloody fee.

~ Oscar Wilde

Some that read this book will find its Libertarian and Constitutionalist slant a bit obtuse and maybe even off-putting. This author makes no apologies for viewing the history of the eugenics movement from this political perspective. It is the ethical and legal underpinnings of the American Revolution that remain as a guiding light while the eugenics movement continues to reemerge long after its alleged demise. Limited, or rather minimal government, goes a long way to curtail the disconnect that emerges when government grows so large that it no longer feels compelled to heed to the dictates of the governed.

~ A.e. Samaan

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

~ A.e. Samaan

Thomas More's Utopia was not a recommendation. It was a warning.

~ A.e. Samaan

The U.S. didn't achieve its liberty or prosperity by mistake. It was by design, and the architects were the Founding Fathers. Don't mess with the Constitution. The Constitution matters.

~ A.e. Samaan

Very few tyrants argued for the slavery of the masses. Instead, they argued for their right to protect the people from themselves.

~ A.e. Samaan

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

~ A.e. Samaan

Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.

~ A.e. Samaan

The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.

~ A.e. Samaan

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian.

~ A.e. Samaan

I was once a statist, and then I researched The Holocaust. I am now a Libertarian.

~ A.e. Samaan

There is a very dangerous myth that #Hitler was solely fueled by racism. His desire to engineer society was pervasive. Racism alone cannot explain what happened in The Holocaust without also addressing Hitler's statist policies.

~ A.e. Samaan

Liberty isn't everything. I just allows everything to happen.

~ A.e. Samaan

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

~ A.e. Samaan

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an Idea Economy which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

~ A.e. Samaan

Political scientists and professors are the new clergy, the clergy of oppression.

~ A.e. Samaan

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

~ A.e. Samaan

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private liberty.

~ A.e. Samaan

Communism is what happens when Socialists realize that they want complete control over every aspect of human life.

~ A.e. Samaan

The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.

~ A.e. Samaan

It is difficult for me to imagine what personal liberty is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

~ Joseph Stalin

Big government = oligarchy. Simple equation. Big government = loss of representation.

~ A.e. Samaan

A centrally planned economy by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

~ A.e. Samaan

There is no law, there is only conjecture. The Progressive ethos changes the law's meaning according to fad and fashion.

~ A.e. Samaan

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.

~ A.e. Samaan

[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

~ Emma Goldman