Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments:
Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws;
Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe."

~ John Adams  

"There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right."

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be."

~ Neal Boortz  

"Freedom is not a reward or a decoration
that is celebrated with champagne...
Oh no! It's a...long distance race,
quite solitary and very exhausting."

~ Albert Camus  

"A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,
or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"If you think we are free today,
you know nothing about tyranny
and even less about freedom."

~ Tom Braun  

"Today the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor
who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody,
at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury."

~ William J. Campbell  

"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation
as a dangerous citizen these days
is to go about repeating the very phrases
which our founding fathers used
in the great struggle for independence."

~ Charles Austin Beard  

"But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back."

~ Benjamin Franklin  

"A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries
to get in and every rich person who tries to get out."

~ Harry Browne  

"Never could an increase of comfort or security
be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty."

~ Hilaire Belloc  

"That the king can do no wrong
is a necessary and fundamental principle
of the English constitution."

~ Sir William Blackstone  

"The tree of liberty could not grow
were it not watered with the blood of tyrants"

~ Bertrand Barere de Vieuzac  

"Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths
without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty:
that what we believe is not necessarily true;
that what we like is not necessarily good;
and that all questions are open."

~ Clive Bell