Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-08-28 Aug 26, 2022[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.~ John AdamsThere exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroI can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.~ Neal Boortz Aug 25, 2022Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.~ Albert CamusA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.~ Sir Francis Bacon Aug 24, 2022If you think we are free today, you know nothing about tyranny and even less about freedom.~ Tom BraunToday the grand jury is the total captive of the prosecutor who, if he is candid, will concede that he can indict anybody, at any time, for almost anything, before any grand jury.~ William J. CampbellOne of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.~ Charles Austin Beard Aug 23, 2022But what madness must it be to run in debt for these superfluities! We are offered, by the terms of this vendue, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose you veracity, and sink into base downright lying; for, as Poor Richard says, the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. And again to the same purpose, lying rides upon debt's back.~ Benjamin FranklinA welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.~ Harry BrowneNever could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.~ Hilaire Belloc Aug 22, 2022That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.~ Sir William BlackstoneThe tree of liberty could not grow were it not watered with the blood of tyrants.~ Bertrand Barere de VieuzacOnly reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.~ Clive Bell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print