Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute."

~ Philip K. Howard  

"Civil libertarians must often remind government officials (and others) that if the First Amendment only protected the expression of popular and agreeable ideas, it would be totally unnecessary since those ideas would never be threatened by our democratic form of government. Our society's commitment to free speech is tested when we encounter the expression of ideas that are disagreeable -- or even offensive."

~ Timothy Lynch  

"There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press… and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs."

~ Eugene McCarthy  

"All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people."

~ James Burgh  

~ Mark Twain  

"Congress has not unlimited powers
to provide for the general welfare,
but only those specifically enumerated."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all."

~ Davy Crockett  

"A democratic despotism is like a theocracy:
it assumes its own correctness."

~ Walter Bagehot  

"I have never seen more senators express discontent with their jobs. ... I think the major cause is that, deep down in our hearts, we have been accomplices to doing something terrible and unforgivable to this wonderful country. Deep down in our hearts, we know that we have bankrupted America and that we have given our children a legacy of bankruptcy. ... We have defrauded our country to get ourselves elected."

~ John C. Danforth  

"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen."

~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis  

"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress."

~ Mark Twain  

"Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety
arising from political suppression are always greater than
the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom.
Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise."

~ Alexander Meiklejohn  

"When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, 'Who is destroying the world?' You are."

~ Ayn Rand  

~ Jacob G. Hornberger