Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."

~ Stewart L. Udall  

"Our system is changing and [Congress] is the one branch that must act if we are to reverse those changes. We are seeing the emergence of a different model of government, a model long-ago rejected by the framers. ... A dominant presidency has occurred with very little congressional opposition. Indeed, when President Obama pledged to circumvent Congress, he received rapturous applause from the very body that he was proposing to make practically irrelevant. Now many members are contesting the right of this institution to even be heard in federal court. ... This body is moving from self-loathing to self-destruction in a system that is in crisis. The president's pledge to effectively govern alone is alarming, and what is most alarming is his ability to fulfill that pledge. When a president can govern alone, he can become a government unto himself, which is precisely the danger the framers sought to avoid."

~ Jonathan Turley  

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"Restraint of government is the true liberty and freedom of the people."

~ John P. Reid  

"The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death,
but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy."

~ John Quincy Adams  

"The means prepare the end, and
the end is what the means have made of it."

~ John Viscount Morley  

"Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."

~ Florence Ellinwood Allen  

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud,
is the only maxim which can ever preserve
the liberties of any people."

~ John Adams  

"[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property."

~ John Locke  

"By liberty I mean the assurance
that every man shall be protected
in doing what he believes is his duty against
the influence of authority and majorities,
custom and opinion."

~ Lord Acton  

"The wise learn from the experience of others,
most from their own experience,
and fools not at all."

~ Proverb  

"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty."

~ Thomas Jefferson