Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power..."

~ Edward Alsworth Ross  

"Whosoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor."

~ John Locke  

"You may not be interested in war,
but war is very interested in you."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"Kings had always been involving
and impoverishing their people in wars,
pretending generally, if not always,
that the good of the people was the object."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so."

~ George Washington  

"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people,
and not by accident, lapse, or omission.
It is the result of their deliberate actions,
long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated
by high ideals toward virtuous ends."

~ Isabel Paterson  

"We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

~ Edward R. Murrow  

"One of the fondest expressions around is that
we can't be the world's policeman.
But guess who gets called
when somebody needs a cop."

~ General Colin Powell  

"One cannot wage war under present conditions
without the support of public opinion,
which is tremendously molded by the press
and other forms of propaganda."

~ General Douglas MacArthur  

"Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves
who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets
that they cannot separately plunder a third.

~ Ambrose Bierce  

"Finally, there seem to be but three Ways for a Nation to acquire Wealth. The first is by War as the Romans did in plundering their conquered Neighbours. This is Robbery. The second by Commerce which is generally Cheating. The third by Agriculture the only honest Way; wherein Man receives a real Increase of the Seed thrown into the Ground, in a kind of continual Miracle wrought by the Hand of God in his favour, as a Reward for his innocent Life, and virtuous Industry."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people."

~ Dr. Ron Paul  

"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation
ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"There can be no greater error than to expect or calculate
upon real favors from nation to nation."

~ George Washington  

"It is an approved maxim in war,
never to do what the enemy wishes you to do,
for this reason alone, that he desires it."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte