Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage."

~ L. Neil Smith  

"The militia of these free commonwealths,
entitled and accustomed to their arms,
when compared with any possible army,
must be tremendous and irresistible.
Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves?
Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms
each man against his own bosom.
Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier,
are the birth-right of an American ...
the unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands
of either the federal or state governments,
but, where I trust in God it will ever remain,
in the hands of the people."

~ Tench Coxe  

"Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it."

~ Henry St. John  

~ Jonathan H. Adler  

"What is the essence of America?
Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance
between freedom 'to' and freedom 'from'."

~ Marilyn vos Savant  

"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core."

~ Hannah Arendt  

"If you believe it reprehensible to possess the means and will to use lethal force to repel a criminal assault, how can you call upon another to do so for you?"

~ Jeffrey R. Snyder  

"O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name!"

~ Madame Jeanne-Marie Roland  

~ John Louis Coffey  

~ Max Lerner  

"I tolerate with utmost latitude the right of others to differ with me in opinion without imputing to them criminality. I know too well all the weaknesses and uncertainty of human reason to wonder at its different results."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

Finally, the fundamental flaw, which will ultimately destroy this prohibition as it did the last one, is that criminal sanctions cannot, and should not attempt to, prohibit personal conduct which does no harm to others.

~ Judge Robert Sweet  

"Zealotry of either kind -- the puritan's need to regiment others or
the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself -- tends to
produce a depressing civic stupidity. Each trait has about it the
immobility of addiction. Victims become addicted to being victims:
they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer,
defaulting helplessness. On the other side, the candlesnuffers of
behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox, accomplishing
intolerance in the name of tolerance, regimentation in the name of
betterment."

~ Lance Morrow  

"It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine’s correctness
that its adversaries use the police, the hangman,
and violent mobs to fight it.
But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse
to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced
of the untenability of their own doctrines."

~ Ludwig Von Mises