Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom
unless he be vigilant in its preservation."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors."

~ John Locke  

"You can’t, in sound morals,
condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity.
It is his clear duty."

~ Joseph Conrad  

"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

~ Buddha  

"Too many Americans have twisted
the sensible right to pursue happiness
into the delusion that we are entitled
to a guarantee of happiness.
If we don't get exactly what we want,
we assume someone must be violating our rights.
We're no longer willing to write off
some of life's disappointments to simple bad luck."

~ Susan Jacoby  

"Every man is, no doubt, by nature,
first and principally recommended to his own care;
and as he is fitter to take care of himself
than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so."

~ Adam Smith  

"Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule."

~ Plato  

"If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a
majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have
become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared
with those who claimed the right to rule over them."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive."

~ Westbrook Pegler  

"America, my friends, is the only country in the world
actually founded on liberty -- the only one.
People went to America to be free."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings. ... Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things, which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it. Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. ... Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

~ Patrick Henry  

"The general object was to produce
a cure for the evils under which the United States labored;
that in tracing these evils to their origins,
every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy."

~ Edmund Randolph  

"A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union."

~ James Madison  

"Absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority."

~ Kentucky Declaration of Rights - Art. I, Sec. 2