Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately, for abolishing the state itself. … Communism is the goal."

~ Roger Baldwin  

"The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war."

~ Roger Sherman  

"The art of war is simple enough.
Find out where your enemy is.
Get at him as soon as you can.
Strike at him as hard as you can
and as often as you can,
and keep moving on."

~ Ulysses S. Grant  

"The punishment of death
is the war of a nation against a citizen
whose destruction it judges
to be necessary or useful."

~ Cesare Beccaria  

~ Nelson Shields  

"Government is, and always has been, the greatest criminal threat to the peaceful members of society."

~ Richard M. Ebeling  

"And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist;
but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established."

~ Algernon Sidney  

"We recognize, as appellants urge, the undisputed power of the jury to acquit, even if its verdict is contrary to the law as given by the judge, and contrary to the evidence. This is a power that must exist as long as we adhere to the general verdict in criminal cases, for the courts cannot search the minds of the jurors to find the basis upon which they judge. If the jury feels that the law under which the defendant is accused, is unjust, or that exigent circumstances justified the actions of the accused, or for any reason which appeals to their logic of passion, the jury has the power to acquit, and the courts must abide by that decision."

~ U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Maryland  

"Be not intimidated...
nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties
by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency.
These, as they are often used, are but three different names
for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."

~ John Adams  

"The great object is, that every man be armed."

~ Patrick Henry  

"An armed society is a polite society."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"I have a dream that one day
this nation will rise up and
live out the true meaning of its creed:
'We hold these truths to be self-evident:
that all men are created equal.' ...
I have a dream that my four little children
will one day live in a nation where
they will not be judged by the color of their skin
but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.