Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Thus arbitrary power will have divided men
of superior intelligence into two groups:
the former will be seditious, the latter corrupt..."

~ Benjamin Constant  

"The best way of avenging thyself
is not to become like the wrong-doer."

~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus  

"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong;
and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it."

~ William Tecumseh Sherman  

"Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution
and required by the spirit and safety of free government."

~ James Madison  

~ Jonathan Swift  

"And, lastly, to vindicate these rights,
when actually violated and attacked,
the subjects of England are entitled,
in the first place, to the regular administration
and free course of justice in the courts of law;
next to the right of petitioning the king
and parliament for redress of grievances; and,
lastly, to the right of having and using arms
for self preservation and defense."

~ Sir William Blackstone  

"Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms;
and this right shall never be questioned."

~ Maine Constitution  

~ Wilson v. State  

"Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind,
and therefore independence of all
social, political or religious prejudice...
It loves one thing only... truth."

~ Henri Frederic Amiel  

"I love agitation and investigation and glory
in defending unpopular truth against popular error."

~ James A. Garfield  

"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism,
seeing that there is no practical question
on which anything more than
an approximate solution can be had?"

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson