Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts
to enforce a law not supported by the people."

~ Hubert H. Humphrey  

"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes
too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts.
These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women;
when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;
no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it."

~ Judge Learned Hand  

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

~ Plato  

"The more laws, the less justice."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and
in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal
and achieve it merely by law."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"When dealing with a legal matter --
always remember that you are your own best advocate.
No one will care as much about the case as you do.
Use lawyers but remember -- you must take primary
responsibility for a successful outcome."

~ Grant D. Fairley  

"The more laws the more offenders."

~ Dr. Thomas Fuller  

If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"The minute you read something that you can't understand,
you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer."

~ Will Rogers  

"It is clear that thought is not free
if the profession of certain opinions
make it impossible to earn a living."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When Somebody Up There -- a monarch, a dictator, a Pope, a legislator -- so decrees."

~ Jessica Mitford  

"None can love freedom but good men;
the rest love not freedom, but license,
which never hath more scope than under tyrants."

~ John Milton  

"Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."

~ Edward Gibbon  

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done."

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow