Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Political correctness is really a subjective list
put together by the few to rule the many --
a list of things one must think, say, or do.
It affronts the right of the individual
to establish his or her own beliefs."

~ Mark Berley  

"Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected "radicals" without warrant, hold them without prompt trial, deny them access to counsel and admission of bail....we have shorn the Bill of Rights of its sanctity..."

~ Robert M. Lafollette, Sr.  

"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens."

~ Wendell L. Willkie  

"The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is,
just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that,
as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes."

~ Carl Friedrich Bahrdt  

"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people."

~ Charles Bradlaugh  

"We have a natural right
to make use of our pens as of our tongue,
at our peril, risk and hazard."

~ Voltaire  

"The rights of all persons are wrapped in the same constitutional bundle
as those of the most hated member of the community."

~ A. L. Wirin  

"If liberty means anything at all,
it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear."

~ George Orwell  

"Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases,
freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either
for the views they express, or the words they speak or write."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Force and reason --
which last is the essence of the moral act --
are at the two opposite poles.
The one who compels his neighbor...
treats him, not as a being with reason,
but as an animal in whom reason is not."

~ Auberon Herbert  

"Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without
but an equilibrium which is set up from within."

~ José Ortega y Gasset  

"The key to wisdom is this --
constant and frequent questioning ...
for by doubting we are led to question and
by questioning we arrive at the truth."

~ Peter Abelard  

"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress
to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens
from keeping their own arms."

~ Samuel Adams  

"After a shooting spree,
they always want to take the guns
away from the people
who didn't do it.
I sure as hell
wouldn't want to live in a society
where the only people
allowed guns
are the police and the military."

~ William S. Burroughs  

"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."

~ Sigmund Freud