Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. James Wilson
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener. Pauline Thomason …
Love is blind — marriage is the eye-opener.
Pauline Thomason
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the …
Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson
Address, New York Press Club, May 9, 1912 (1856-1924)
There is a recognition of the equality of rights among citizens in …
There is a recognition of the equality of rights among citizens in the pursuit of the ordinary avocations of life, and a declaration that all grants of exclusive privileges, in contravention of this equality, are against common right, and void. Mr. Justice Stephen Field
Justice Stephen Field: Shaping Liberty from the Gold Rush to the Gilded Age, by Paul Kens. University Press of Kansas, 1997.
A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide …
A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. James Madison
In 1787 at the constitutional convention, regarding a proposal that was made to allow the federal government to suppress a seceding state.
The facts establish a pattern of false statements, deceit and obstruction. And …
The facts establish a pattern of false statements, deceit and obstruction. And by committing these actions, the president moved beyond the private arena of protecting personal embarrassing conduct and his actions began to conceal, mislead and falsify à invaded the very heart and soul of that which makes this nation unique in the world, the right of any citizen to pursue justice equally. Asa Hutchinson
U.S. Rep. Asa Hutchinson, R-Ark., AP, Dec 18, 1998
I like long walks – especially when they are taken by people who …
I like long walks – especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Fred Allen
US entertainer and radio comedian (1894-1956)
They were iron men; they fought for the principle they were contending …
They were iron men; they fought for the principle they were contending for; and [from them] the degree of prosperity we now enjoy has come to us. Abraham Lincoln
On the founding fathers of the United States of America (1809-1865)
Let’s talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that …
Let’s talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal. Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And becoming President of the United States is not a matter of rewarding an individual for past services.
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell, Feb 1, 2008
A campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and …
A campaign finance bill sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Russell Feingold (D-WI) was proposed and rejected by the Senate due to questions about its constitutionality and one-sidedness. Al Gore backed the bill strongly, and even claimed ‘Unlike Senator [Bill] Bradley, I was a co-sponsor of it’ in the November 24, 1999 New York Times. But as noted by Bill Bradley’s campaign, ‘Gore not only did not, but could not have co-sponsored McCain-Feingold. Russ Feingold was not elected until 1992. Al Gore quite the Senate in 1992 to become Vice President. Feingold and Gore never served together.’ Al Gore
Bradley Press Release, December 7, 1999. It was thus impossible for Gore to have co-sponsored this bill.