Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"All lawful authority comes from God to the people."

~ Constitution of the Irish Free State  

"No man who knows aught,
can be so stupid to deny
that all men naturally were born free."

~ John Milton  

"The right to enjoy property without unlawful deprivation,
no less that the right to speak out or the right to travel
is, in truth, a “personal” right."

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"For liberalism, the individual is the end, and society the means.
For fascism, society is the end, individuals the means, and its whole
life consists in using individuals as instruments for its social ends."

~ Alfredo Rocco  

"The work of the individual
still remains the spark
that moves mankind forward."

~ Igor Sikorsky  

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from
incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and
violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the
constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly
in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion."

~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes  

"The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations,
advocate causes, and make political "mistakes"
without being subjected to governmental penalties."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"Whatever the immediate gains and losses,
the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression
are always greater than the dangers
to the safety resulting from political freedom.
Suppression is always foolish."

~ Neil A. McDonald  

"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery."

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau  

~ John Louis Coffey  

"...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or
domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their
constitutional liberties, in the foolish hope that a bigger government
will provide greater security."

~ Larry P. Arnn  

"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

~ Declaration of Independence  

"If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it
because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide
something should or should not be broadcast
because of Washington or Main Street consequences,
we have dishonored ourselves and
we have lost the First Amendment by default."

~ Richard Salant  

"If it be asked,
What is the most sacred duty and
the greatest source of our security in a Republic?
The answer would be,
An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws."

~ Alexander Hamilton