Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this."

~ Albert Einstein  

"Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up
his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul."

~ Robert G. Ingersoll  

"I know it will give great offense to the New England clergy,
but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect
neither peace nor forgiveness from them."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts."

~ Samuel Chase  

"A society that will trade
a little liberty for a little order
will lose both, and deserve neither."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The purpose of the right to bear arms is twofold; to allow individuals to protect themselves and their families, and to ensure a body of armed citizenry from which a militia could be drawn, whether that militia’s role was to protect the nation, or to protect the people from a tyrannical government."

~ Glenn Harlan Reynolds  

"If the rest of the country had adopted right-to-carry concealed-handgun provisions in 1992, about 1,500 murders and 4,000 rapes would have been avoided."

~ John R. Lott, Jr.  

"The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretense by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both."

~ William Rawle  

"The moment men obtain perfect freedom, that moment they erect a stage for the manifestation of their faults. The strong characters begin to go wrong by excess of energy; the weak by remissness of action."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

~ John F. Kennedy  

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made."

~ John Godfrey Saxe  

~ Adlai E. Stevenson II  

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes  

~ Sir Winston Churchill