Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:
if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome."

~ Anne Bradstreet  

"There are no mistakes.
The events we bring upon ourselves,
no matter how unpleasant,
are necessary in order
to learn what we need to learn;
whatever steps we take,
they're necessary to reach
the places we've chosen to go."

~ Richard Bach  

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be."

~ Yogi Berra  

"When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves,
there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone."

~ George O'Neil  

"When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?"

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that
the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society,
groups, the state, exist for his benefit. Therefore the enlargement
of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and
abiding practice of any western society."

~ Robert F. Kennedy  

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

~ Aesop  

"It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States, if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences. In other words, the Constitution cannot protect you, if you don't protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom -- and all our freedom -- to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association -- the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"I would rather be exposed to the
inconveniences attending too much liberty
than to those attending too small a degree of it."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an
important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if
left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression;
and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress
of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident
would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"I think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty,
will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards,
they should be rather for the security of the individual
than of the mass, and that our chiefest care must be
to train the majority to respect the rights of the minority,
to prevent the claims of the few from being trampled
under foot by the caprice or passion of the many."

~ Sir Richard John Cartwright  

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested,
than in the protection of every individual’s private rights."

~ Sir William Blackstone  

"Constitutional rights may not be infringed
simply because the majority of the people choose that they be."

~ Supreme Court of the United States