The ever astutely wise truth bearer Dr. Walter E. Williams!

Paul, Magnolia TX - Maybe you should attempt to do your homework and search for Marcus Tullius Cicero's quote above yourself. Because you can find it on numerous and various sites if you only attempt to make the effort.

I would suggest that from here on out that every true constitutional patriot completely ignore the pathetic Socialist Waffler, Smith.
His great desire is for everyone to live in a commune with him. And, believe me ... that is the last thing I would wish to do ... or would wish on anyone else!

Truth and Wisdom have continuously emitted from the lips of Ron Paul. The great patriotic defender of the U.S. Constitution

The Tyrannical and UN-Constitutional "Obamacare"

jim k, Austin - I second your brilliant opinion of both Dick and Reston. Both live in the servile to the government Fog of the Unknown!

Waffler has been in and out of "Alice's Looking Glass" so many times that he doesn't know which way is Up or Down let alone what true Liberty and Unalienable Rights mean.
We all wish that he finds and leaves for his Collective Socialist Utopia soon so that we would not have to any longer put up with his sorry crepe hanging delusional missives.

"Popular Liberty?" No doubt Lenin meant by that comment the popular liberty of group thought and control through Mob Rule .. and not by any means the basic necessary liberty and sanctity of the Unalienable Rights of the Individual.

God is mentioned as "Lord" just once in the U.S. Constitution under Article VII. I suggest that those who wish can go look it up can very easily do so.
The basic's of the shared quote is to state that no one wants any "intrusions intentions" forced on them for good or for ill ... when they are unwanted, unwarranted, unsolicited and/or exercised by another individual, group or a government.
We all have the unalienable right to be left alone. And, we all have the unalienable right to deny the unlawful intrusive abuse of our privacy, persons and our property no matter how great one may think the "intentions" may be.

Yes, that good ol' Socialist Welfare System along with the blatantly wasteful and abusive Military Industrial Complex and the worthless devaluing Fiat Monetary system have all tremendously and egregiously helped to place the sovereign U.S. into an unfathomable and unsustainable $19 Trillion and climbing National Debt.
The U.S. was not constitutionally founded as a haven for socialism. the U.S. was founded as a Limited Government Republic to allow people the freedom to make their own choices (right or wrong) and to free up their Unalienable Rights to pursue their own individual initiatives and ambitions as long as each individual caused no harm to another individual and their property.
It saddens me to think of how this country failed to elect a true constitutional patriot like Barry Goldwater and instead elected a vile and scheming Welfare Socialist and War Monger in the likes of Lyndon Johnson. We've been paying the price ever since.
All of you Canadians who adore your socialist society can keep it ... but, our representatives have sworn a sacred oath and covenant to our U.S. Constitution ... which is this sovereign nation's ONLY Supreme Rule of Law (Article 6) over and above anyone's whim's, schemes and socialist agenda's.

It is very sad that Barry Goldwater did not win the position of POTUS against the vile and constitution shredding Lyndon Johnson.
If Goldwater had won he would have at least had the chance to teach and educate some of the populous who wished to learn that the federal government has no right to unlawfully overstep its limited constitutional authority.

Common sense and rational objective reasoning as contained and emblemized throughout all of Frderic Bastiat's writings have never been lost on the likes of Waffler, Smith ... because, he never had ever found them or absorbed them in the first place!
The Waffler parasites objective, idea and ideals are to always take, plunder and possess the fruits of all others labor.

Bernie Sanders favorite quote as well as desired agenda.

Hendrik van Loon truly must have been thinking about and referring to people just like Waffler, Smith when he made this statement.

Does Senator John McCain come to mind?

The actual thinking of the U.S. Fascist War Mongers of D.C. in the present day.

We the People have certainly been bestowed with a multitude of inept elected and appointed people Serving Us Up in government who told us their "cause" was for the defense of the founding Limited Government Republic. And yet, they have displayed a complete lack of ability to "defend" the U.S. Constitution that they've sworn a sacred oath to uphold. That is due to the fact that they've never truly read or completely fully intellectually discerned the document that was written to protect each of our sovereign individual rights and freedoms.

Great words ... Sadly they ring hollow coming from the Big Brother Government Woodrow Wilson and the unholy era of 1913 that visited upon us all the Federal Reserve Bank and the Federal Income Tax ... as well as U.S. Senators elected by the people instead of as formerly appointed by each states representatives.

Wonderful a quote from the freedom fighting Thomas Paine. It is sad to think about today how many are "The summer soldiers" and the "sunshine patriots" who will sell out their and everyone else's liberties for overreaching government securities that undermine our freedoms.

@ Jack, Green, OH - I want to share with you a quote from Thomas Jefferson in regards to as the reasons why we should not ever consider the U.S. Supreme Court as the final arbitrators.
-- Thomas Jefferson - "To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves. -- Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277

Short, sweet and to the conclusion of an excellent constitutional point.

Thank you Editor of Liberty Quotes for attempting to educate and honestly enlighten the completely and habitually dense Waffler. Alas, and as usual your and all other heartfelt and meaningful attempts are to no avail because Waffler never received any "cylinders" to hit on.

Kudos A.Woods, Gloucester, USA. I highly concur with your response!

I only wish that the statement by the U.S. Supreme Court had actually started off with, "Constitutional protections and natural born Unalienable Rights may not be infringed."

This excellent quote from John Adams is absolutely succinct to the present day.