Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the Divine Rights of the Common Man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration
of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...
It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and
which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

~ Albert Gallatin  

"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups
start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the
beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would
otherwise involve... But how is this legal plunder to be identified?
Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to
them and gives it to the other persons to whom it doesn't belong.
See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing
what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then
abolish that law without delay ... No legal plunder; this is the
principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony and logic."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence."

~ John Adams  

"A right is not what someone gives you;
it's what no one can take from you."

~ Ramsey Clark  

"Among the natural Rights of the Colonists are these: First, a Right to Life; secondly, to Liberty; thirdly, to Property; together with the Right to support and defend them in the best Manner they can. Those are evident Branches of, rather than Deductions from, the Duty of Self-Preservation, commonly called the first Law of Nature."

~ Samuel Adams  

"It was we, the people;
not we, the white male citizens;
nor yet we, the male citizens;
but we, the whole people,
who formed the Union."

~ Susan B. Anthony  

"There is surely no contradiction in saying
that a certain section of the community may be quite competent
to protect the persons and property of the rest,
yet quite unfit to direct our opinions,
or to superintend our private habits."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice,
but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

~ Elie Wiesel  

"If the people will lead, eventually the leaders will follow."

~ Florence Robinson  

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

~ Malcolm X  

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"If a man hasn't discovered something
that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.