Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is becoming increasingly apparent that many -- arguably most -- of the problems that plague our nation have been aggravated rather than alleviated by federal intervention.
In one area after another, massive infusions of tax dollars have been squandered on false solutions which, when they fail to achieve their stated objectives, are cited to justify even more spending on other futile schemes that result in bigger government.
Examples include programs and laws supposedly intended to reduce racial animosity which have instead heightened race-related tensions;
welfare schemes that, rather than reducing poverty, have enticed millions of Americans to become dependent on Washington for their daily bread;
federal funding (and control) of education, which has spawned a monumental education crisis;
a "war" on drugs which has done little to curb drug traffic, but which has eroded many personal liberties;
a health-care finance system that has deteriorated as government meddling and regulation have increased;
and a masochistic immigration policy larded with false "solutions" that, while failing to stop the inflow of illegal aliens, have paved the way for further government intrusion into the lives of nearly all Americans."

~ Robert W. Lee  

“If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.”

~ Theodore Roosevelt  

"The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their destruction, which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption, and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens. Funding I consider as limited, rightfully, to a redemption of the debt within the lives of a majority of the generation contracting it; every generation coming equally, by the laws of the Creator of the world, to the free possession of the earth he made for their subsistence, unincumbered by their predecessors, who, like them, were but tenants for life."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think."

~ William O. Douglas  

"The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society."

~ Margaret Mead  

"The constitution which at any time exists,
till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people,
is sacredly obligatory upon all."

~ Rhode Island Declaration of Rights Article I, Section I  

"[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions ... would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"When you disarm peaceful citizens, crime and violence explode.."

~ Jarret Wollstein  

"[T]he police do not and cannot protect law-abiding citizens from criminal violence. ... This thought may not occur to wealthy people who can shelter themselves in low-crime enclaves and who care not at all about their less fortunate neighbors. But no one knows it better than the police, who scrupulously preserve their own right to carry firearms on and off duty (and often after they retire as well) even while some of them advocate disarming those whom the police cannot protect."

~ Nelson Lund  

"Those who have sought the most in gun control have sought the least in the punishment of criminals."

~ Robert J. Kukla  

"Governments need armies to protect them
against their enslaved and oppressed subjects."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"While the legislature has power, in the most comprehensive manner, to regulate the carrying and use of firearms, it has no power to constitute it a crime for a person, alien or citizen, to possess a revolver for the legitimate defense of himself and his property, said right being expressly granted by section 5, art. 2, of the State Constitution, to every person."

~ Michigan Supreme Court  

"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win
without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure
and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to
fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for
survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is
no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as
slaves."

~ Sir Winston Churchill