Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland."

~ Lydia M. Child  

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be
that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"

~ William O. Douglas  

"It is the theory of all modern civilized governments
that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen;
it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise,
and sometimes very narrowly."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"In the midst of these pleasing ideas we should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections."

~ John Adams  

"Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons."

~ John Ruskin  

"History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government."

~ Bell v. Hood  

"Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon."

~ Boyd v. U.S.  

"Freedom lies in being bold."

~ Robert Frost  

"When you think about it if somebody is a legal and responsible gun owner, let’s say in Massachusetts, why all of a sudden when he crossed the border is he an outlaw?"

~ Howard Stern  

"It is an approved maxim in war,
never to do what the enemy wishes you to do,
for this reason alone, that he desires it."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

"I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech."

~ Vince Vaughn  

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."

~ James Madison  

" If I said, "The live-and-let-live people I've met are generally warm and generous, although often reserved and respectful, while the control freaks I've met are generally cynical, mean and aggressively obnoxious," would that seem likely to be true?
Of course it does. It IS true, and it's obviously logically consistent and what you'd expect.
BUT, if I said, "I've found the intellectual defenders of private property and laissez-faire capitalism whom I've met to be generally warm and generous, while the so-called "liberal" defenders of the welfare state I've found to be often cynical, mean and tight-fisted in their personal lives," would THAT seem likely to be true?
Think about it. Well, it's also true.... it's a matter of semantics, or word choice. BECAUSE BOTH SENTENCES SAY EXACTLY THE SAME THING. "

~ Rick Gaber  

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others."

~ Sir Winston Churchill