Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Jurors should acquit, even against the judge’s instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong."

~ Andrew Hamilton  

"The victim to too severe a law
is considered as a martyr
rather than a criminal."

~ Charles Caleb Colton  

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man,
by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

~ John F. Kennedy  

"This is a world of compensations;
and he who would be no slave
must consent to have no slave.
Those who deny freedom to others
deserve it not for themselves."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"All go free when multitudes offend.
[Lat., Quicquid multis peccatur inultum est.]"

~ Lucanus  

"The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed,
is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed,
and the advantages to result from them,
are sufficiently seen and understood."

~ Thomas Paine  

"No government of the Centre would seek powers to imprison individuals who have committed no crime merely on the say-so of "experts" who believe they might commit a crime. No libertarian government would want to reduce our right to trial by jury, to curfew children, to place "anti-social behaviour orders" on citizens, to conduct compulsory DNA and drug tests on all offenders. No government that was concerned with freedom would seek to ban pursuits that harm no one, such as foxhunting, simply because they are unpopular. No government that has respect for its citizens would seek to interfere so intimately with so many of their private activities -- for instance, what right does a government have to tell me under what terms and conditions I may sell my house. The transaction should, quite simply, be none of their business."

~ George Thomas  

"It is a part of the function of 'law' to give recognition
to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct.
Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending
to do one thing, while actually doing another."

~ Thurman Arnold  

"Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country."

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land,
it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

~ James Madison  

"A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other,
in order that the people may require a leader."

~ Plato  

"In wartime, truth is so precious
that she should always be attended
by a bodyguard of lies."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic.
We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence."

~ Alexander Hamilton  

"The convoluted wording of legalisms
grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves
the violence we intend toward each other.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and
depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.
You have done violence to him, consumed his energy."

~ Frank Herbert