Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens."

~ John Marshall Harlan  

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty,
and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty,
in the phrase that is common in the sporting world,
'A free field and no favor.'"

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"True freedom is to share
All the chains our brothers wear
And, with heart and hand, to be
Earnest to make others free."

~ James Russell Lowell  

"And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage, and thereby come to have a distinct interest from the rest of the community, contrary to the end of society and government: therefore in well ordered commonwealths, where the good of the whole is so considered, as it ought, the legislative power is put into the hands of divers persons, who duly assembled, have by themselves, or jointly with others, a power to make laws, which when they have done, being separated again, they are themselves subject to the laws they have made; which is a new and near tie upon them, to take care, that they make them for the public good."

~ John Locke  

"I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount of blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals.
Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don’t fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America.
Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom."

~ Juan Williams  

"The village atheist has the right to be heard;
he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right
not to have his own children indoctrinated in what
he believes are false and foolish teachings,
he has no right to dictate what other children may be taught."

~ Patrick J. Buchanan  

"Toleration of people who differ in convictions and habits
requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth
and the possibility of opposing view having some light
on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth."

~ Reinhold Niebuhr  

"It is maintained that a society is free only when dissenting minorities have room to throw their weight around. As a matter of fact, a dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy -- I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master."

~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.  

"Each day, it seemed, another law was passed to impoverish and diminish them, punishing them for whatever success they achieved and rewarding their less competent and industrious neighbors."

~ L. Neil Smith  

"Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.'"

~ Justice Charles Evans Hughes  

"The invaluable and the valueless, the noble and the tawdry, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false, the good and the evil, are equally protected by the First and the Fourteenth Amendments’ guarantees of a free press and religious freedom."

~ Milton Konvitz  

"Under the Equal Protection clause, not to mention the First Amendment itself, government may not grant the use of a forum to people whose views it finds acceptable, but deny use to those wishing to express less favored or more controversial views."

~ Supreme Court Of The United States