Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression."

~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis  

"Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"

~ Lillian Hellman  

"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."

~ Robert A. Heinlein  

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality,
tied in a single garment of destiny.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly."

~ Virgil  

"Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy
because it is mostly concealed, built into us
by indolence, self-interest and cowardice."

~ John Osborne  

"If you are afraid to speak against tyranny,
then you are already a slave."

~ John "Birdman" Bryant  

"The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets
of the government and inform the people. Only a free and
unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in
government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a
free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government
from deceiving the people."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master."

~ Thomas Hodgskin  

"Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked
with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before
they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs,
police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people
out of our lives and went back to common sense."

~ Walter E. Williams  

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed."

~ William Penn  

"Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here...
Americans just want us to solve America's problems of health and safety -- and not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified."

~ Sen. John Glenn  

"The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government."

~ Jacob G. Hornberger  

"Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies,
but let wasps and hornets break through."

~ Jonathan Swift