“Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.” WarOpportunityLibertyCryAuthorityCompetitionPrivilegeDestroyedMonopolyWar Cry Book:Instead of a Book Source: Instead of a Book
“American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.” IfsDoeFightingTermInterestRaceLibertyMoralClassGroupsMaterialsBecomingMoralitySucceedClaimsGenderDoctrineDestroyedOppressedGood WillSupremacyMarxistSpunAmerican Liberty Author:Paul Craig Roberts
“Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.” HappensNightNationsLibertySunPressesDestroyedDespotism Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think
“The moment that law is destroyed, liberty is lost, and men, left free to enter upon the domains of each other, destroy each other's rights, and invade the field of each other's liberty.” MenMomentsLawLostLeftLibertyRightsFieldsDestroyedDomain Author:J. G. Holland
“Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people” PeopleHas BeensDoneNamesLibertyDestroyed Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Terrorists and their allies believe the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the American Bill of Rights and every charter of liberty ever written are lies to be burned and destroyed and forgotten.” BelieveHumansLyingLibertyRightsWrittenUniversalBillsForgottenHuman RightsTerroristDestroyedAlliesBurnedDeclarationBill Of RightsCharterDeclaration Of Human Rights Author:George W. Bush
“He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.” PeopleCountryDreamFallMemoriesPowerfulLibertyOne ThingCenturyRevolutionInspiredMythOppressionDestroyedRisingShakesMajestyNineteenth CenturyFraternity Author:Eric Hobsbawm
“Anyone who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it may expect to be destroyed by it; for such a city may always justify rebellion in the name of liberty and its ancient institutions.” MayDoeNamesCitiesLibertyMastersInstitutionsAncientDestroyedJustifyRebellionAccustomed Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.” MindMadeSoulSeemsNightLeftStrongSecretLibertyDarknessComfortPleasePureWorthyDestroyedSelfishnessUselessContemptAbandonment Author:Thomas Merton
“If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.” PeopleIfsHandsReligionFallReligiousLibertyDestroyedClergy Author:Marquis de Lafayette
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” IfsWarWisdomAmericaPoliticalLosesReligiousFreedomLibertyCitizensDestructionDestroyedPresidentialPatriotismPatrioticDestroyingAnti WarAntiwarPatriot4th Of JulyDemocracies HaveGreat AmericanRights And FreedomsAmerican PatrioticGreat PatrioticAmerican PatriotismAmerican PatriotAmerica FreedomPatriotism In AmericaChristian PatrioticAmerican VotersFalteringOnly In AmericaPatriotism And FreedomVoting Founding FathersDestroying OurselvesUsa Freedom Author:Abraham Lincoln