Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny
individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

~ Ayn Rand  

"You have to remember, rights don’t come in groups we shouldn’t have ‘gay rights’; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn’t have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"I don’t believe in quotas.
America was founded on a philosophy
of individual rights, not group rights."

~ Justice Clarence Thomas  

"'Parent choice' proceeds from the belief that the purpose of education is to provide individual students with an education. In fact, educating the individual is but a means to the true end of education, which is to create a viable social order to which individuals contribute and by which they are sustained. 'Family choice' is, therefore, basically selfish and anti-social in that it focuses on the 'wants' of a single family rather than the 'needs' of society."

~ Association of California School Administrators  

"We are opposed to state interference with parental rights and rights of conscience in the education of children as an infringement of the fundamental Democratic doctrine that the largest individual liberty consistent with the rights of others insures the highest type of American citizenship and the best government."

~ Democratic National Platform of 1892  

"The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"The smaller the mind the greater the conceit."

~ Aesop  

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

~ Aesop  

"While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out.
It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again."

~ Aesop  

"Students throughout the totalitarian world risk life and limb for freedom of expression, many American college students are demanding that big brother restrict their freedom of speech on campus. This demand for enhanced censorship is not emanating only from the usual corner – the know-nothing fundamentalist right – it is coming from the radical, and increasingly not-so-radical left as well."

~ Alan Dershowitz  

~ American Library Association  

"In the most civilized and progressive countries
freedom of discussion is recognized as a fundamental principle."

~ C. E. M. Joad  

"And, lastly, to vindicate these rights,
when actually violated and attacked,
the subjects of England are entitled,
in the first place, to the regular administration
and free course of justice in the courts of law;
next to the right of petitioning the king
and parliament for redress of grievances; and,
lastly, to the right of having and using arms
for self preservation and defense."

~ Sir William Blackstone  

"If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,
there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original
right of self-defense..."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"God who gave us life gave us liberty.
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure
if we have removed their only firm basis:
a conviction in the minds of men
that these liberties are the gift of God?
That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just;
that His justice cannot sleep forever."

~ Thomas Jefferson