Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."

~ David Hume  

"Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred;
it is a habit to be acquired."

~ David Lloyd George  

"You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre,
but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"

~ Khalil Gibran  

~ Edmund Burke  

"There is no freedom on earth or in any star
for those who deny freedom to others."

~ Elbert Hubbard

"When law and morality contradict each other,
the citizen has the cruel alternative
of either losing his moral sense
or losing his respect for the law."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers -- and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system."

~ Ayn Rand  

"Constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. It is the duty of the courts to be watchful of constitutional rights against any stealthy encroachments thereon."

~ Boyd v. U.S.  

"Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes.
The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people
still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep. The taint
inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its anti-humanity."

~ Eric Hoffer  

"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"While the State exists, there can be no freedom.
When there is freedom there will be no State."

~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin  

"The history of liberty is the history of the limitation of government power, not the increase of it."

~ Woodrow Wilson  

"... liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith."

~ Alexis de Tocqueville  

"I would remind you that extremism
in the defense of liberty is no vice.
And let me remind you also that moderation
in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

~ Barry Goldwater  

~ Calvin Coolidge