Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty."

~ Marvin Cooley  

"He that complies against his will,
Is of his own opinion still."

~ Samuel Butler  

"If the legislature clearly misinterprets a Constitutional provision,
the frequent repetition of the wrong will not create a right."

~ Amos v. Mosley  

"The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts ceases to discriminate between good and evil. He becomes a slave in body and soul. Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!"

~ Mordechai Anielewicz  

"Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach;
once we have left it, we can never return."

~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux  

"One of the hardest things to teach a child is that
the truth is more important than the consequences."

~ O. A. Battista  

"Who profits by a sin has done the sin."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies
the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other.
If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath,
if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"The man who never looks into a newspaper
is better informed than he who reads them;
inasmuch as he who knows nothing is
nearer to the truth than he whose mind
is filled with falsehoods and errors."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."

~ Booker T. Washington  

"A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups
start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"To dragoon man into the adoption of what we think right, is an intolerable tyranny."

~ William Godwin  

"... ours is a sick profession marked by incompetence, lack of training, misconduct and bad manners. Ineptness, bungling, malpractice, and bad ethics can be observed in court houses all over this country every day ... these incompetents have a seeming unawareness of the fundamental ethics of the profession. ... the harsh truth is that ... we may well be on our way to a society, overrun by hordes of lawyers, hungry as locusts, and brigades of judges in numbers never before contemplated."

~ Justice Warren E. Burger  

"Where law ends, tyranny begins."

~ Margaret Thatcher  

"The United States was supposed to have a limited government because the founders knew government power attracts demagogues and despots as surely as horse manure attracts horseflies."

~ Rick Gaber