Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"With respect to the new Government, nine or ten States will probably have accepted by the end of this month. The others may oppose it. Virginia, I think, will be of this number. Besides other objections of less moment, she [Virginia] will insist on annexing a bill of rights to the new Constitution, i.e. a bill wherein the Government shall declare that, 1. Religion shall be free; 2. Printing presses free; 3. Trials by jury preserved in all cases; 4. No monopolies in commerce; 5. No standing army. Upon receiving this bill of rights, she will probably depart from her other objections; and this bill is so much to the interest of all the States, that I presume they will offer it, and thus our Constitution be amended, and our Union closed by the end of the present year."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live."

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

~ Matsuo Basho  

"Few things are harder to put up with
than the annoyance of a good example."

~ Mark Twain  

"One does what one is;
one becomes what one does."

~ Robert von Musil  

"A machine has value only as
it produces more than it consumes --
so check your value to the community. "

~ Martin H. Fischer  

"One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"Strange times are these in which we live
when old and young are taught in falsehood's school.
And the one man who dares to tell the truth
is called at once a lunatic and fool."

~ Plato  

"...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

~ Voltairine de Cleyre  

"The great and invigorating influences
in American life have been the unorthodox:
the people who challenge an existing
institution or way of life,
or say and do things that make people think."

~ William O. Douglas  

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens,) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove, that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial; else it becomes the instrument of the very influence to be avoided, instead of a defence against it. Excessive partiality for one foreign nation, and excessive dislike of another, cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots, who may resist the intrigues of the favorite, are liable to become suspected and odious; while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests."

~ George Washington  

"[P]art of people’s concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn’t holding and we’re not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that’s based on a different set of principles, that’s based on a sense of common humanity, that’s based on economies that work for all people."

~ Barack Hussein Obama  

"The most powerful clique in these (CFR) groups have one objective in common they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the U.S. They want to end national boundaries and racial and ethnic loyalties supposedly to increase business and ensure world peace. What they strive for would inevitably lead to dictatorship and loss of freedoms by the people. The CFR was founded for “the purpose of promoting disarmament and submergence of U.S. sovereignty and national independence into an all powerful one world government.” "

~ Harpers magazine