Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than
when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by
the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in and keep step and obey in silence
the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of
the good citizen not to be silent."

~ Charles Eliot Norton  

"If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government"

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower  

"It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit.
Men must be free to worship, to think,
to hold opinions, to speak without fear.
They must be free to challenge wrong and
oppression with the surety of justice."

~ Herbert Hoover  

A frequent recurrence to the fundamental principles of the constitution, and a constant adherence to those of piety, justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality, are absolutely necessary to preserve the advantages of liberty, and to maintain a free government.

~ Massachusetts Bill of Rights  

"We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The ultimate result
of shielding men
from the effects of folly
is to fill the world with fools."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

~ Late 16th Century Proverb  

"Crime does not pay...as well as politics."

~ Alfred E. Newman  

"If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to
tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature,
as well as on the people, the people will be prepared
to tolerate anything but liberty."

~ James Madison  

"It is the common fate of the indolent
to see their rights become prey to the active.
The conditions upon which God
hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance;
which condition if he break, servitude is at once the
consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt."

~ John Philpot Curran  

"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends."

~ Aristotle  

"No government is respectable which is not just. Without unspotted
purity of public faith, without sacred public principle, fidelity,
and honor, no machinery of laws, can give dignity to political society."

~ Daniel Webster  

"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely."

~ Lord Acton