Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Justice in the hands of the powerful is
merely a governing system like any other.
Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,
but of a sly effective order, based entirely on
cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak,
their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery."

~ Georges Bernanos  

"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'."

~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi  

"The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression,
is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind."

~ New Hampshire Constitution  

"Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A man will find that as he alters his thoughts
toward things and other people,
things and others will alter towards him."

~ James Allen  

"Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom,
and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in
the hands of people who use it to promote their own interest."

~ Milton Friedman  

"I repeat... that all power is a trust;
that we are accountable for its exercise;
that, from the people, and for the people,
all springs, and all must exist."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power
is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

~ Charles-Louis de Secondat  

"Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers."

~ John C. Calhoun  

"The only idea they have ever manifested
as to what is a government of consent, is this --
that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot."

~ Lysander Spooner  

"The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power;
laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power."

~ Thomas Cooper  

"Under our form of government, the legislature is not supreme ... like other departments of government, it can only exercise such powers as have been delegated to it, and when it steps beyond that boundary, its acts, like those of the most humble magistrate in the state who transcends his jurisdiction, are utterly void."

~ Billings v. Hall  

"If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient way to hold on to that power. Suddenly it was the Left, the protector of liberty, that was setting rules about what could and could not be said or even thought."

~ Tammy Bruce  

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

~ William O. Douglas