Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Elections are a good deal like marriages,
there's no accounting for anyone's taste.
Every time we see a bridegroom
we wonder why she ever picked him,
and it's the same with Public Officials."

~ Will Rogers  

"Now that no one buys our votes,
the public has long since cast off its cares;
for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships,
legions, and all else, now meddles no more and
longs eagerly for just two things -- bread and circuses."

~ Juvenal  

"All over the Union, people are coming to feel that they have no control over the course of affairs... ‘We vote; we are offered the platform we want; we elect the men who stand on that platform; and we get absolutely nothing.’ So they begin to ask: ‘What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.’ "

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"It is the eternal struggle between these two principles --
right and wrong -- throughout the world.
They are the two principles that have stood
face to face from the beginning of time..."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right."

~ William Safire  

"The three aims of the tyrant are, one, the humiliation of his subjects; he knows that a mean-spirited man will not conspire against anybody; two, the creation of mistrust among them; for a tyrant is not to be overthrown until men begin to have confidence in one another -- and this is the reason why tyrants are at war with the good; they are under the idea that their power is endangered by them, not only because they will not be ruled despotically, but also because they are too loyal to one another and to other men, and do not inform against one another or against other men -- three, the tyrant desires that all his subjects shall be incapable of action, for no one attempts what is impossible and they will not attempt to overthrow a tyranny if they are powerless."

~ Aristotle  

"Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions
are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country.
The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die..."

~ John Peter Altgeld  

"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent
soon find themselves exterminating dissenters.
Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
only the unanimity of the graveyard."

~ Justice Robert H. Jackson  

"A good end cannot sanctify evil means;
nor must we ever do evil,
that good may come of it."

~ William Penn  

"Truth always originates in a minority of one,
and every custom begins as a broken precedent."

~ Nancy Astor  

"When men are brought face to face with their opponents,
forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease
to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men.
Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions
because they must examine their opinions."

~ Walter Lippmann  

"The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought."

~ Justice Anthony Kennedy