Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"By doing just a little every day,
I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."

~ Ashleigh Brilliant  

"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

~ Yogi Berra  

"If those persons, who fancy themselves gifted with both the power and the right to define and punish other men’s vices, would but turn their thoughts inwardly, they would probably find that they have a great work to do at home; and that, when that shall have been completed, they will be little disposed to do more towards correcting the vices of others, than simply to give to others the results of their experience and observation."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"So long as there are earnest believers in the world,
they will always wish to punish opinions,
even if their judgment tells them it is unwise
and their conscience tells them it is wrong."

~ Walter Bagehot  

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system,
that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose,
serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic
experiments without risk to the rest of the country."

~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis  

"I never hurt nobody but myself
and that's nobody's business but my own."

~ Billie Holiday  

"Laws provide against injury from others, but not from ourselves."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The jury has the right to judge both the law
as well as the fact in controversy."

~ John Jay  

"Moderation in all things --
including moderation."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security."

~ Frank Herbert  

"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"Prohibition ended in 1933 because the nation’s most influential people, as well as the general public, acknowledged that it had failed. It had increased lawlessness and drinking and aggravated alcohol abuse."

~ Thomas M. Coffey  

"Prohibition is an awful flop.
  We like it. 
It can't stop what it's meant to stop.
  We like it. 
It's left a trail of graft and slime,
It don't prohibit worth a dime, 
It's filled our land with vice and crime. 
Nevertheless, we're for it."

~ Franklin P. Adams  

"It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...
that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted
to either his own devices or his own thoughts."

~ H. L. Mencken