Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Crime is rampant because the law-abiding, each of us, condone it, excuse it, permit it, submit to it. We permit and encourage it because we do not fight back, immediately, then and there, where it happens. Crime is not rampant because we do not have enough prisons, because judges and prosecutors are too soft, because the police are hamstrung with absurd technicalities. The defect is there, in our character. We are a nation of cowards and shirkers."

~ Jeffrey R. Snyder  

"You can't run a society or cope with its problems
if people are not held accountable for what they do."

~ John Leo  

"Where there is no law there is no freedom."

~ John Locke  

"The history of liberty has largely been the history
of the observance of procedural safeguards."

~ Felix Frankfurter  

"The requirement of 'due process'
is not a fairweather or timid assurance.
It must be respected in periods
of calm and in times of trouble;
it protects aliens as well as citizens."

~ Felix Frankfurter  

"It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the
safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.
History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty
extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end."

~ Felix Frankfurter  

"A nation, which can prefer appeasement over danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

~ Ayn Rand  

"I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon.
Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country
was my unalterable determination."

~ John Adams  

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then
to hang a question mark on the things
you have long taken for granted."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting."

~ Buddha  

"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"What’s “just” has been debated for centuries, but let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then, tell me how much of what I earn “belongs” to you -- and why?"

~ Walter E. Williams  

"Liberalism is a moral manipulation that exaggerates inequity and unfairness in American life in order to justify overreaching public policies and programs. Liberalism undermines the spirit of self-help and individual responsibility. For liberals in academia, the fact that black college students earn lower grades and have a higher dropout rate than any group besides reservation Indians means that blacks remain stymied and victimized by white racism. Thus, their push for affirmative action and other race-based programs is to assuage their guilt and shame for America’s past by having people around with black skin color. The heck with the human being inside that skin."

~ Walter E. Williams  

"Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. ... Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong -- in effect, legalized theft."

~ Walter E. Williams