Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The First Amendment was never intended to insulate our public institutions from any mention of God, the Bible or religion. When such insulation occurs, another religion, such as secular humanism, is effectively established."

~ Crockett v. Sorenson  

"The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school
is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function
which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.' "

~ Jonathan Kozol  

"The state may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.'"

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"The believer is happy, the doubter is wise."

~ Hungarian Proverb  

"Mistrust the people and they become untrustworthy."

~ I Ching  

"License they mean when they cry, Liberty!

For who loves that, must first be wise and good."

~ John Milton  

"God requireth not a uniformity of religion."

~ Roger Williams  

"Former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart noted (in his dissent of Abington Township, 1963) ‘if religious exercises are held to be impermissible activity in schools, religion is placed at an artificial and state-created disadvantage. Permission for such exercises for those who want them is necessary if the schools are truly to be neutral in the matter of religion. And a refusal to permit them is seen not as the realization of state neutrality, but rather as the establishment of a religion of secularism.'"

~ Ronald Reagan  

"If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion. The Establishment Clause does not license government to treat religion and those who teach or practice it … as subversive of American ideals."

~ US Supreme Court  

"[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood,
and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this,
or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary."

~ John Locke  

"[I]f society acknowledges that handguns have significant defensive value and can help save the lives of police officers and security guards, how can society deny that handguns can also help save the lives of other people?"

~ David B. Kopel  

"Thus perhaps the most dangerous of all socialist attacks on America in the 1990s is the onslaught to register and confiscate America's firearms. America cannot be subjugated to communism or a socialist dictatorship until Americans are first disarmed. Poland has strict gun control; so does Cambodia, Russia, and Red China. Over 100 million people were brutally slaughtered in those countries, but first they were disarmed. The danger to people when they can't own guns is far greater than any danger gun ownership can ever create."

~ Donald S. McAlvaney  

"For the past 30 years our nation’s spent $5 trillion trying to erase poverty, and the result, as you know, is that we didn’t get rid of it at all. In fact, we spread it. We destroyed the self-esteem of millions of people, grinding them down in a welfare system that penalizes moms for wanting to marry the father of their children, and penalizes moms for wanting to save money. Friends, that’s not right."

~ J. C. Watts, Jr.  

"The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"Nannyism is fascism on training wheels."

~ R. L. Root