I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. Abraham Lincoln
Address to an Indiana Regiment(1809-1865)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free …
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
U.S. Constitution’s 2nd Amendment
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‘We never make assertions, Miss Taggart,’ said Hugh Akston. ‘That is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell — we *show*. We do not claim — we *prove*.’ Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged(1905-1982)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on …
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain
(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of …
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind…Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks. Thomas Jefferson
Encyclopedia of Thomas Jefferson, 318 (1743-1826)
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. Benjamin Franklin Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’…
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
Benjamin Franklin
Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard’s Almanac, 1757. 1706-1790
In the stock market, like the rest of life, there’s always …
In the stock market, like the rest of life, there’s always the temptation to substitute rules for judgment. John Rubino
March 23, 2001, TheStreet.com
Among a people generally corrupt, Liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke Edmund …
Among a people generally corrupt, Liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Liberty February 1999
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow …
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older they know it. Oscar Wilde
Author (Investor’s Business Daily, January 14, 1999)
If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different …
If the function of this Court is to be essentially no different from that of a legislature, if the considerations governing constitutional construction are to be substantially those that underlie legislation, then indeed judges should not have life tenure and they should be made directly responsible to the electorate. Felix Frankfurter
Graves v. New York , 306 US 466 (1939) Ã