Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law.
When the secular is called in to sustain an idea,
whether new or old, it is always a bad idea,
and not infrequently it is downright idiotic."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong."

~ L. A. Powe, Jr.  

My business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact,
not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley  

"Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another."

~ Baruch Spinoza  

"...and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November, next to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, or will be ...that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to there becoming a nation... And also that we then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions... to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a governmment of wise, just and Constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed...(and) to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among us...given under my hand at the City of New York, the 3rd day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1789."

~ George Washington  

"If all were to share alike, and all were to do alike, then all were on an equality throughout, and one was as good as another; and so, if it did not actually abolish those very relations which God himself has set among men, it did at least greatly diminish the mutual respect that is so important should be preserved amongst them. Let none argue that this is due to human failing, rather than to this communistic plan of life in itself...."

~ William Bradford  

"Liberty is meaningless where the right
to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.
That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants.
It is the right which they first of all strike down."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."

~ Karl Marx  

"The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty,
and can never be restrained but by despotic governments."

~ George Mason  

"Under the privilege of the First Amendment
many, many ridiculous things are said."

~ John Kenneth Galbraith  

"Wherever there’s a disagreement among Republicans, I’m for one of those disagreements. I’m all for it. The president’s with Russia? I’m with John McCain and Lindsey Graham, I’m for NATO! Why? [It’s a] wedge. Wedges have to be schisms, schisms have to be divides."

~ Rahm Emanuel  

"Few things are more irritating than when someone who
is wrong is also very effective in making his point.”

~ Mark Twain  

"Totalitarianism spells simplification:
an enormous reduction in the variety
of aims, motives, interests, human types,
and, above all, in the categories and units of power."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot -- because the first leads inevitably to the second."

~ Harry Browne  

"The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson