Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"For most Americans
the Constitution had become
a hazy document,
cited like the Bible
on ceremonial occasions
but forgotten
in the daily transactions of life."

~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.  

"Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."

~ Dr. Samuel Johnson  

"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances,
as though they were realities, and are often more influenced
by the things that seem than by those that are."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli  

"Those who wish to appear wise among fools,
among the wise seem foolish."

~ Marcus Fabius Quintilianus  

"O, what a tangled web we weave,
when first we practice to deceive!"

~ Sir Walter Scott  

"When they call the roll in the Senate,
the Senators do not know whether
to answer 'present' or 'not guilty.'"

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"Every bureaucrat has a constitutional right
to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate.
It's a part of our freedom of speech...
If people can understand what is being said in Washington,
they might want to take over their own government again."

~ Dr. Jim Boren  

"Government machinery has been described
as a marvelous labor saving device
which enables ten men to do the work of one."

~ John Maynard Keynes  

"Where the meaning of the Constitution is clear and unambiguous,
there can be no resort to construction to attribute to the founders
a purpose or intent not manifest in its letter."

~ Norris v. Baltimore  

"Powers once assumed are never relinquished,
just as bureaucracies, once created, never die."

~ Charley Reese  

"Ultimately, however, as the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter pointed out, a powerful bureaucratic class is in the same relation to commerce as was the scorpion in Aesop to the dog on whose back he crossed the river. They will destroy commerce and establish socialism, even if it kills them, because that is their nature."

~ John Derbyshire  

"Without general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution…in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element."

~ Rosa Luxemburg  

"The greatest danger is that the decision will be regulated more by the comparative strength of parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"There can be no crime, there can be no misdemeanor without a law written or unwritten, express or implied."

~ Benjamin Curtis  

"Impeachment is about whatever the Congress says it is. There is no law that dictates impeachment. What the Constitution says is “high crimes and misdemeanors,” and we define that."

~ Maxine Waters