Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Express everything you like.
No word can hurt you. None.
No idea can hurt you.
Not being able to express an idea or word
will hurt you more. Like a bullet."

~ Jamaica Kincaid  

"The Declaration of Independence, the words that launched our nation -- 1,300 words.
The Bible, the word of God -- 773,000 words.
The Tax Code, the words of politicians -- 7,000,000 words -- and growing!"

~ Steve Forbes  

"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification."

~ Martin H. Fischer  

"The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."

~ Mark Twain  

"Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government."

~ St. George Tucker  

"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"Every citizen must look up to the laws, as his master, his guardian, and his friend; and whenever any of his fellow citizens, whether magistrates or subjects, attempt to deprive him of his right, he must appeal to the laws; if the aristocracy encroach, he must appeal to the democracy; if they are divided, he must appeal to the monarchical power to decide between them, by joining with that which adheres to the laws; if the democracy is on the scramble for power, he must appeal to the aristocracy, and the monarchy, which by uniting may restrain it. If the regal authority presumes too far, he must appeal to the other two. Without three divisions of power, stationed to watch each other, and compare each other's conduct with the laws, it will be impossible that the laws should at all times preserve their authority, and govern all men."

~ John Adams  

"A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves...and include all men capable of bearing arms."

~ Richard Henry Lee  

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world."

~ Socrates  

"Every citizen should be a soldier.
This was the case with the Greeks and Romans,
and must be that of every free state."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits."

~ Thomas Hardy  

"Our lives improve only when we take chances --
and the first and most difficult risk we can take
is to be honest with ourselves."

~ Walter Truett Anderson  

"Morons hate it when you call them a moron."

~ J. D. Salinger