Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"[A] limited Constitution ... can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing ... To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"The federal criminal code currently includes more than 3,000 offenses and hardly a congressional session goes by without an attempt to add new sections."

~ Stephen Chippendale  

"Liberty, equality -- bad principles!
The only true principle for humanity is justice;
and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness."

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel  

"On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of these States."

~ James Madison  

"My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrims' pride!
From ev'ry mountainside,
Let freedom ring!"

~ Rev. Samuel Francis Smith