Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights."

~ Justice Hugo L. Black  

"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to
take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes
boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans
to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy
votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind
of justice."

~ Thomas Sowell  

"As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship."

~ Justice John Paul Stevens  

"Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists,
not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses.
The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement,
but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought."

~ Ludwig von Mises  

"A family member asked my wife,
"Aren't you concerned about his (our son's) socialization with other kids?"
My wife gave this response:
"Go to your local middle school, junior high, or high school,
walk down the hallways, and tell me which behavior you see
that you think our son should emulate." "

~ Manfred B. Zysk  

"If Americans wish to preserve a country they will recognize,
then the first step is to recognize the enemy.
Public education is the enemy. The entertainment industry is the enemy.
The corporate culture is the enemy. The advertising industry is the enemy.
And most of the politicians in both parties are the enemy.
An enemy is defined as anybody, or any organization,
which is attacking the traditional beliefs of Americans."

~ Charley Reese  

"None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those who falsely believe they are free."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  

"A general State education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mold in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, an aristocracy, or a majority of the existing generation; in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body."

~ John Stuart Mill  

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty,
and there is nothing more to fear from them,
then he is always stirring up some war or other,
in order that the people may require a leader."

~ Plato  

"Give them a corrupt House of Lords,
give them a venal House of Commons,
give them a tyrannical Prince,
give them a truckling court,
and let me have but an unfettered press.
I will defy them to encroach a hair’s breadth
upon the liberties of England."

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan  

"To silence criticism is to silence freedom."

~ Sidney Hook  

"I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution
under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider,
that law to be a nullity as absolute and palpable as if Congress
had ordered us to fall down and worship a golden image."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."

~ George Washington  

"He who passively
accepts evil
is as much
involved in it
as he who helps
to perpetuate it."

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.