Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"During war, the laws are silent."

~ Quintus Tullius Cicero  

"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

~ Rahm Emanuel

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”"

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  

"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration
of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals...
It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and
which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."

~ Albert Gallatin  

"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. "

~ Calvin Coolidge  

"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation,
are people who want crops without ploughing the ground;
they want rain without thunder and lightning;
they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.
The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one,
or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand;
it never has and it never will."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed,
for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more
easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The
primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a
big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies,
but would be ashamed to tell big lies."

~ Adolf Hitler  

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"I have always believed that government had a limited capacity
to do good and a virtually infinite capacity to do harm..."

~ Neil Hamilton  

"The Constitution of the United States is a law
for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace,
and covers with the shield of its protection
all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances.
No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences,
was ever invented by the wit of man than
that any of its provisions can be suspended
during any of the great exigencies of government.
Such a doctrine leads directly to anarchy or despotism,
but the theory of necessity on which it is based is false;
for the government, within the Constitution,
has all the powers granted to it,
which are necessary to preserve its existence;
as has been happily proved by the result
of the great effort to throw off its just authority."

~ Justice David Davis  

"Above all, every member of the university has an obligation to permit free expression in the university. No member has a right to prevent such expression. Every official of the university, moreover, has a special obligation to foster free expression and to ensure that it is not obstructed."

~ C. Van Woodward

"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

~ Sir Francis Bacon  

"Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world.
Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful
political weapons man has ever forged."

~ William O. Douglas  

"To freemen, threats are impotent.
[Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]"

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero  

"Our ultimate freedom
is the right and power to decide
how anybody or anything
outside of ourselves will affect us."

~ Steven R. Covey