Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"If it was necessary to tolerate in other people
everything that one permits oneself,
life would be unbearable."

~ Georges Courteline  

"The majority, oppressing an individual,
is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength,
and by acting on the law of the strongest
breaks up the foundations of society."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation,
must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech...
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom;
and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech..."

~ Cato  

"I would rather be right than President."

~ Henry Clay  

"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship."

~ Proverb  

"When I was a boy I was told
that anybody could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it."

~ Clarence S. Darrow  

        "A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word 'BUT' which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative - before they tell you. Thus: 'I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but...(a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)."

~ Frank Mankiewicz  

"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour."

~ Japanese Proverb  

"The general object was to produce
a cure for the evils under which the United States labored;
that in tracing these evils to their origins,
every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy."

~ Edmund Randolph  

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me.
They have, taking one with another, no special talent
for the business of government;
they have only a talent for getting and holding office."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy -- I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"Assault weapons laws resemble hate speech laws. Hate speech laws usually begin by targeting a few words that almost no one approves. Once the system for controlling and punishing “hate speech” is put into place, there is little or nothing to stop it from expanding to punish more and more types of everyday speech. Similarly, once an assault weapons law is on the books, there is little to prevent politicians from vastly increasing the number of weapons banned under the law. The main effect of banning assault weapons is to give government an excuse to arrest and imprison millions of Americans while doing little or nothing to reduce crime. America has a limited number of police, and politicians must decide who the real public enemies are. If Mr. Clinton signs an assault weapons ban, it could signal the start of an attack on gun owners’ constitutional rights that could far surpass all previous gun bans."

~ James Bovard