Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom.
The shout is a rattling of chains and always was."

~ D. H. Lawrence  

"Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future.
Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong."

~ Friedrich August von Hayek  

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs
but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

~ General George S. Patton, Jr.  

"If you suppose that good intentions justify intruding
on the lives and properties of your fellow citizens:
Do you appreciate being the target of somebody else's good intentions,
or haven't you had that particular dubious pleasure yet?"

~ Cat Farmer  

"Unfortunately, the fundamental concepts of dignity, respect, equality before the law and personal freedom are under attack by the nation’s own government. That’s why, if we want to restore a free society and create greater well-being and opportunity for all Americans, we have no choice but to fight for those principles."

~ Charles Koch  

"The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man
who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

~ Carl Gustav Jung  

"Standing up to a tyrant
has always been illegal and dangerous.
There is no guarantee but one --
to not live like a slave,
nor to die like one."

~ Eric Schaub  

"The simple step of a courageous individual
is not to take part in the lie.
One word of truth outweighs the world."

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme.
Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech,
to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble,
it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face."

~ Justice Potter Stewart  

"The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. They are construing our constitution from a coordination of a general and special government to a general and supreme one alone. This will lay all things at their feet... We shall see if they are bold enough to take the daring stride their five lawyers have lately taken. If they do, then... I will say, that 'against this every man should raise his voice,' and more, should uplift his arm."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice.
Tolerance in the face of tyranny is no virtue."

~ Barry Goldwater (Questionable)