Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are 'just' because the law makes them so."

~ Frederic Bastiat  

"No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being..."

~ Benjamin Constant  

"Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?"

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

~ Frederick Douglass  

"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."

~ John Adams  

"Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end, and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own."

~ Woodrow Wilson

"Man's character is his fate."

~ Heraclitus  

"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature -- a type nowhere at present existing."

~ Herbert Spencer  

"When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel ... for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon."

~ Thomas Paine