Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Most reporters are very sympathetic to gun-control agendas and will skew or lie outright about facts to promote them."

~ Dennis Cauchon  

"Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea,
it will never again return to its original size."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"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  

"All bad precedents began as justifiable measures."

~ Gaius Julius Caesar  

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

~ Felix Frankfurter  

"There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders."

~ Henry Fielding  

"An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates his duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."

~ Thomas Paine  

"Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end,
the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion...
In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating
the difference between independence of thought and subservience."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"Knowledge is power."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free."

~ William Cowper  

"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  

"Hypocrisy is anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most
penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it,
and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of our Constitution, was horrified when Congress appropriated $15,000 to help French refugees. He said, 'I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.' Tragically, today's Americans would run Madison out of town on a rail."

~ Walter E. Williams