Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-02-27 Feb 27, 2014We have met the enemy and he is us.~ Walt KellyThere are two good things in life -- freedom of thought and freedom of action.~ W. Somerset Maugham Feb 26, 2014Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.~ Dr. Ron PaulEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem (By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty)~ Massachusetts State MottoThe state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.~ Max Stirner Feb 25, 2014The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.~ Albert CamusThere comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.~ Thomas Hobbes Feb 24, 2014If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.~ Henry David ThoreauNothing can destroy a government more quickly than its failure to observe its own laws, or worse, its disregard of the charter of its own existence.~ Justice Tom C. ClarkWhen a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional rights it acts lawlessly and the citizen can take matters into his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. ~ Justice William O. Douglas Feb 21, 2014To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.~ Elizabeth Cady StantonDo not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.~ James MadisonThe framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation is unnecessary, and cannot be indulged in to narrow or enlarge the text; but where there is ambiguity or doubt, or where two views may well be entertained, contemporaneous and subsequent practical construction is entitled to the greatest weight.~ Justice Melville Weston Fuller Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print