Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren."

~ King Solomon  

"Most of the change we think we see in life
Is due to truths being in and out of favor."

~ Robert Frost  

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end."

~ T. S. Eliot  

"The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'."

~ Walter E. Williams  

"Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud and vain."

~ Samuel Butler  

"Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

~ P. J. O'Rourke  

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree."

~ James Madison  

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

~ Edward R. Murrow  

"Find out just what the people will submit to and you have found out
the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon
them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by
the endurance of those whom they oppress."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment."

~ Henry Steele Commager  

"Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.
The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history
of the limitation of governmental power,
not the increase of it."

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than
when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by
the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence
the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of
the good citizen not to be silent."

~ Charles Eliot Norton  

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."

~ Daniel Webster