Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-02-28 Feb 28, 2022The most extravagant idea that can be born in the head of a political thinker is to believe that it suffices for people to enter, weapons in hand, among a foreign people and expect to have its laws and constitution embraced. No one loves armed missionaries; the first lesson of nature and prudence is to repulse them as enemies.~ Maximilien François Marie Isidore de RobespierreIt may be your intent to be our masters; how can it be ours to be your slaves?~ MeliansEvery citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 25, 2022Jurors should acquit, even against the judge’s instruction ... if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction that the charge of the court is wrong.~ Andrew HamiltonThe victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.~ Charles Caleb ColtonI consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet devised by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 24, 2022Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.~ John F. KennedyThis is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.~ Abraham LincolnAll go free when multitudes offend. [Lat., Quicquid multis peccatur inultum est.]~ Lucanus Feb 23, 2022The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.~ Thomas PaineNo government of the Centre would seek powers to imprison individuals who have committed no crime merely on the say-so of "experts" who believe they might commit a crime. No libertarian government would want to reduce our right to trial by jury, to curfew children, to place "anti-social behaviour orders" on citizens, to conduct compulsory DNA and drug tests on all offenders. No government that was concerned with freedom would seek to ban pursuits that harm no one, such as foxhunting, simply because they are unpopular. No government that has respect for its citizens would seek to interfere so intimately with so many of their private activities -- for instance, what right does a government have to tell me under what terms and conditions I may sell my house. The transaction should, quite simply, be none of their business.~ George ThomasIt is a part of the function of “law” to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the complications arise from the necessity of pretending to do one thing, while actually doing another.~ Thurman Arnold Feb 22, 2022Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.~ Ambrose BierceIf Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.~ James MadisonA tyrant…is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.~ Plato Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print