Quotes

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
-- Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Albert.Einstein.Quote.D405

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
-- Samuel Adams
(1722-1803), was known as the "Father of the American Revolution."
1780
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Samuel.Adams.Quote.414E

"Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.EB68

Quote

"The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level."


-- Norman Mailer

(1923-2007) American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Norman.Mailer.Quote.939D

Reagan Quote

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.

Government programs, once launched, never disappear.
Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to
eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

-- Ronald Reagan
(1911-2004) 40th US President
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ronald.Reagan.Quote.F1B8

Some Good Quotes

"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."

-- Adolf Hitler
(1889-1945) German Nazi Dictator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Adolf.Hitler.Quote.50AB


"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."
-- Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
Source: Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.C53E


"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
-- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965) Prime Minister of England
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Winston.Churchill.Quote.907C

Margaret Thatcher Quote

"America, my friends, is the only country in the world

actually founded on liberty -- the only one.
People went to America to be free."
-- Margaret Thatcher
British Prime Minister
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Margaret.Thatcher.Quote.8AF1

Oppenheimer Quote

"There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors."
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer(1904-1967)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/J..Robert.Oppenheimer.Quote.DEE6

Oppenheimer was the physicist in charge of the Manhattan Project.

This quote reminds me of Ben Stein's movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed in which he shows that the ability to question, especially the theory of evolution, is not allowed.

Thomas Jefferson Quote

A interesting thought...

"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."-- Thomas Jefferson(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Letter to James Madison, Paris, January 30, 1787. THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON 67 (Dumbauld Ed. 1955).
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.C9F7

Quotes

"The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls --the worst man is as strong as the best at that game;it does not depend on what kind of paperyou drop into the ballot-box once a year,but on what kind of man you drop from your chamberinto the street every morning."
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Source: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Henry.David.Thoreau.Quote.DB19


"In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate -- look at his character. It is alleged by men of loose principles, or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications for political stations. But the scriptures teach a different doctrine. They direct that rulers should be men who rule in the fear of God, men of truth, hating covetousness. It is to the neglect of this rule that we must ascribe the multiplied frauds, breaches of trust, speculations and embezzlements of public property which astonish even ourselves; which tarnish the character of our country and which disgrace our government. When a citizen gives his vote to a man of known immorality, he abuses his civic responsibility; he not only sacrifices his own responsibility; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country."
-- Noah Webster (1758-1843)
American patriot and scholar, author of the first dictionary of American English usage (1806) and the author of the 1828 edition of the dictionary that bears his name.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Noah.Webster.Quote.A82D


"Choice by the people themselves is notgenerally distinguished for its wisdom."
-- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US PresidentSource: 1776, Jefferson’s Literary Commonplace Book, Wilson, ed., 1989, p. 11.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.3488

Quote-Alan Barth

"The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which isto say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state."
-- Alan Barth (1906-1979) served on the editorial board of The Washington Post for thirty years
Source: The Loyalty of Free Men, 1951 http://quotes.libertytree.ca/quote_blog/Alan.Barth.Quote.30F1

Communist Quote

"We must create out of the younger generation a generation of Communists. We must turn children, who can be shaped like wax, into real, good Communists . . . we must remove the children from the crude influence of their families. We must take them over and, to speak frankly, nationalize them. From the first days of their lives they will be under the healthy influence of Communist children's nurseries and schools. There they will grow up to be real Communists."
-Communist Party Education Workers Congress (1918)

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect libertywhen the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom arenaturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-mindedrulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachmentby men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
-- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
US Supreme Court Judge
Source: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States,277 US 479 (1928)http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Louis.Brandeis.Quote.CDBD

Interesting Quotes to Consider about Education

"Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted."
- Vladimir Lenin

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"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."
- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany

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"Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school."
- Winston Churchill