QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.”

-Nelson Mandela

“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”

-Robert Heinlein

“The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates.”

– Tacitus

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”  Letter to Benjamin Rush, September 23, 1800

-Thomas Jefferson

“Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.” Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest

-Stephen E. Ambrose

“War is not glorious as novelists would have us believe.  It is only when we are in the heat and flush of battle that it is fascinating and interesting.  It is only then that we enjoy it.  When we forget ourselves and revel in the destruction we are dealing around us. I am now ashamed of the feelings I had in those hours of danger. Ours is a just war, a holy cause.”

-John Pelham

“You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. But this is the year 1944! Much has happened since the Nazi triumphs of 1940-41. The United Nations have inflicted upon the Germans great defeats, in open battle, man-to-man. Our air offensive has seriously reduced their strength in the air and their capacity to wage war on the ground. Our Home Fronts have given us an overwhelming superiority in weapons and munitions of war, and placed at our disposal great reserves of trained fighting men. The tide has turned! The free men of the world are marching together to Victory!

I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory!

Good luck! And let us beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.” Wealth of Nations

-Adam Smith

“It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”

– Luke 17:2

“The general reading public that wants to learn about the whole of our nation’s past has had to turn to history books written by non-academics who have no Ph.D.s and are not involved in the incestuous conversations of the academic scholars. . . . These historians see themselves as moral critics obligated to denounce the values of the past in order to somehow reform our present.”

-Pulitzer Prize winning Professor Gordon S. Wood

“The determination to resist invasion is the first and most sacred duty of a free people.”

-Benjamin W. Jones

“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again.” “California and the Problem of Government Growth,” Speech as Governor of California, January 5, 1967

-Ronald Reagan

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” Man and Superman

-George Bernard Shaw 

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?”

-George Washington

“Rebellion is the resistance of an inferior to the lawful authority of a superior. A child may rebel against a parent—a slave against his master—citizens against the government, and colonies against their mother-country—but a State cannot rebel; because one Sovereign cannot rebel against another, for all Sovereigns are equal. The Sovereignty of the little State of Delaware is equal to that of New York, or of Russia, though the physical power of those Sovereignties are vastly different. The supposition, therefore, that a Sovereign State can commit Rebellion, Treason, or any crime whatever, is utterly inadmissible in the science of politics. The idea of crime cannot exist where there is no conceivable or possible tribunal, before which the culprit could be arraigned and convicted. Still less can any State be supposed to incur the guilt of rebellion or treason, by resisting an unconstitutional law of the General Government. The General Government is the creature of the States—the offspring of their Sovereign Power. It the Creator to be governed by the lawless authority of the Creature?”

-Maria H. Pinckney 

“Poverty in Egypt, or anywhere else, is not very difficult to explain. There are three basic causes: People are poor because they cannot produce anything highly valued by others. They can produce things highly valued by others but are hampered or prevented from doing so. Or, they volunteer to be poor.”

-Walter Williams

“Oh History, History what a tissue of lies thou art!”

-Daniel H. Hill

“The trouble with this generation is that they are like Prince Ptolemy of Egypt when he wanted Euclid to show him an easy way to learn geometry. It is too much of a general rule now among the young to look for an easy way or a soft place.” Letter to a friend 1923

-Supreme Court Justice Robert Lee Williams of Oklahoma

“It is when people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”

-Patrick Henry

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

-Lord Acton

“The long-established faith of the Texas settlers in the sanctity of written constitutional guarantees reacted against Santa Anna’s arbitrary course, and dormant sympathy for those engaged in a war against tyranny developed into action.”

-William Hughes

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

-Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.”

-Daniel Webster

“Bow down dear land, for thou hast found release

…What were our lives without thee?

What all our lives to save thee?

We reck not what we gave thee;

We will not dare to doubt thee,

but ask whatever else, and we will dare!”

 -James R. Lowell, 1865

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

-George Orwell

“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.”

-James Buchanan

“Successful … politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.”

-Walter Lippmann

“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles.” Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan, August 27, 1856

-Abraham Lincoln

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.”

-Harriet Tubman

“These left-overs from the former Young Turk Party, who should have been made to account for the millions of our Christian subjects who were ruthlessly driven en masse, from their homes and massacred, have been restive under the Republican rule.” Interview published on August 1, 1926 in The Los Angeles Examiner, talking about former Young Turks in his country…

-Mustafa “Ataturk” Kemal, Founder of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923 and revered throughout Turkey

“They shall not pass” (French: ‘On ne passe pas’). During the Battle of Verdun in the First World War

-French General Robert Nivelle

“I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.”

-Clint Eastwood

“A constitution is the law governing government.” LP News

Wesley F. Deitchler

“It’s hard to account for my course except from a painful sense of duty,,,Sacrificing every earthly hope for principle.”

-Richard Ewell

“Most people … aren’t just ignorant or stupid: they genuinely prefer government control of their own and their neighbors’ lives. We can hand out flyers for the rest of our lives, publish as many books as we like, make speeches until we’re blue in the face, and most of them aren’t going to change their minds. While they disagree among themselves about the details, authoritarians of one sort or another constitute an overwhelming majority.” Liberty Magazine

-Max Orhai

“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: “But what would you replace it with?” When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?”

-Thomas Sowell

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”

-Henry David Thoreau

“You [should] not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harm it would cause if improperly administered.”

-Lyndon Baines Johnson

“Faithful servants of Texas, I have asked you to come here, that in the presence of the Representatives of the People of Texas, in their name as Speaker, and in the name of every man, woman, and child in Texas to thank you for the Invaluable services you have rendered them, for, but for you, Texas might have been drenched in blood, and remanded back to military rule, which in my humble judgment you have largely contributed to avert by your consummate tact, true courage, and patriotism. You are now discharged. To John Salmon Ford and the  Travis Rifles (a local volunteer militia company), 1874

-Guy M. Bryan, Texas Speaker of the House

“The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow.”

-Tom Brokaw

“Quit the canvass, there is no show for you now — you’re unendorsed and have angered the big gun of the piebald democracy.” May 5, 1855

Texas State Times (Austin)

“The constitutionality and propriety of the Federal Government assuming to enter into a novel and vast field of legislation, namely, that of providing for the care and support of all those … who by any form of calamity become fit objects of public philanthropy. … I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States. To do so would, in my judgment, be contrary to the letter and spirit of the Constitution and subversive of the whole theory upon which the Union of these States is founded.”

-Franklin Pierce

“The gentle government that promises to hold your hand as you cross the street refuses to let go on the other side.” American Business Executive and Philanthropist

-Theodore J. Forstmann 

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

-Harry Emerson Fosdick

“It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”

-Patrick Cleburne

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

-C.S. Lewis

“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.” The Federalist Papers Federalist No. 1, October 27, 1787

-Alexander Hamilton

“Demand and supply have controlled and regulated the market value of every exchangeable commodity since men began to trade and barter with each other. This is rule to which there is, there can be, no exception.. The value of any article or commodity is high or low in proportion to the prevailing desire to obtain it. No elaborate disquisition upon political economy or the value of exchangeable commodities can be needed to demonstrate the infallible truth of this proposition. It is self-evident known to every man from his individual experience. When the immediate demand for any article or commodity exceeds the available supply, its value or price rises; when the supply exceeds the demand, the price falls just as inevitably as the tides flow and ebb. Nothing on earth is so absolutely subject to the operation of this rule as labor. Ninety-nine hundredths of the laborers of the civilized world are compelled to sell their labor each day for the best price they can get for it.”

-Joseph Wheeler

“The annals of war at sea present no more intense, heart-shaking shock than this battle, in which the qualities of the United States Navy and Air Force and the American Race shone forth in splendour. The bravery and self-devotion of the American airmen and sailors and the nerve and skill of their leaders was the foundation of all.” Regarding the Battle of Midway in World War II

-Winston Churchill

“I’ve spent the past month in Washington D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.”

-Ted Cruz

“What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.”

-Edward Langley

“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“And ere that time arrives I may be a mutilated martyr for my country & I should survive,  the war may last longer & until it closes, I do not expect to see Texas gain.”

-Virginius Petty

“There is only one success – To be able to spend your life in your own way.”

-Christopher Morley

“It is not the responsibility of the government or the legal system to protect a citizen from himself.”

-Justice Casey Percell

“Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom.”

-John F. Kennedy

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“I think a return to fiscal discipline, living within our means is essential for our long-term health.”

-Hillary Clinton

“The Greatest Generation wasn’t the greatest despite the challenges they faced, but because of them. Today many men shirk challenge and difficult pursuits, believing that the easier life is, the happier they’ll be. But our grandfathers knew better. They knew that one cannot have the bitter without the sweet, and that true happiness comes from overcoming the kind of challenges that build character and refine the soul. The challenges they experienced made their joy all the more sweet because it was tinged with the gratitude of knowing how easily it could all have been taken away.”

-Tom Brokaw

“Even as many Texas settlers formed an army and marched on San Antonio de Bexar, Smith originally intended to remain neutral. He changed his mind after the Texian Army, led by Stephen F. Austin, initiated a siege of Bexar. As the siege began, Smith and his son-in-law Hendrick Arnold were absent from town, on a hunting trip. The Mexican army increased security in the town, and refused to allow Smith and Arnold to return to their homes within the city. An indignant Smith immediately joined the Texian Army. Hearing impaired and a man of few words, he wrote to Austin: “I told you yesterday that I would not take sides in this war but, Sir, I now tender you my services as the Mexicans acted rascally with me.”  http://historytrendsanddeafeducation.pbworks.com/w/page/18570551/Erastus%20%22Deaf%22%20Smith
-Biography of Erastus “Deaf” Smith

“The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it.”

-James A. Donald

“I grew up like a neglected weed – ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”

-Harriet Tubman

“Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of years in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.”

-Alan Greenspan

“I am not asking anybody for anything if I can’t get it on my own. If you don’t like the way I’m living, just leave me alone.”

-Charles Daniels

“If people are justified in continuing a rebellion out of regard for their self-preservation [as they are], then there is no reason to think they are not justified in starting one for the same reason.” Hobbes on Resistance: Defying the Leviathan

-Susanne Sreedhar

“The average man doesn’t want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.”

-H.L. Mencken

“All power emanates from the people, they are sovereign; but the general undefined mass of individuals, told by the head within the borders of the United States, are not the people known to our Institutions: the citizens of each State acting through the body politic, or a convention, or in their primary assemblies, are the people. Whatever they shall do in their sovereign capacity, as the people of a State, may be a revolution, but it can never be a rebellion ; a sovereign cannot rebel against himself, nor against his coequal sovereigns; he may violate a compact with them, or they may commit a breach of faith towards him, so as to justify resistance and even war, a revolution if you please of all the relations existing between them, but no act of omission or aggression between coequal and independent parties can be construed into a rebellion.”

-Hugh Garland

“Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.”

-Thurgood Marshall

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property.”

-Thomas Jefferson

“The nature of the Federal Constitution…is a compact based upon cautious and jealous specifications. The distinguished body of men who framed it, guarded and defined every power that was to be exercised through the agency of the General Government—and every other power not enumerated in the compact, was to be reserved and exercised by the States.”

-Maria H. Pinckney

“Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.” November 7, 1977

-Jimmy Carter

“As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.”

-W. E. Gladstone

“I believe in the sovereignty and reserved powers of the States.”

-John W. Ellis

“I’d like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.”

-Duke Morrison

“When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.” Televised address to the nation before the U.S.-Soviet Summit in Geneva, November 14, 1985

-Ronald Reagan

“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness.” National Gazette Essay, January 18, 1792

-James Madison

“While affected deeply by the evils which afflict our country, we can still look upon them without compunction, and say, “Though thou art desolate, my country, it is not this hand hath made thee so. No! Nor was it the hand of the alien foe who waged war against thee, so much as the hands of men whom thou didst nourish in thine own bosom ; who breathed thy breath; who drank from thy cool fountains; who basked in the shade of thy magnificent groves ; whose ears were filled with the warbling of thy birds; whose eyes rested on the placid, yet luxuriant, beauty of thy landscapes; who fed upon the fruits thou dost so bountifully yield; aye, and the bones of whose forefathers and departed kindred had found a resting place beneath thy soul!” All this, and more, they may say—in sorrow, it is true, but with a consoling consciousness of personal rectitude. The value of this reward will be better appreciated when we reflect, what must not be the bitter self-reproach and unavailing regret of those who have failed in their duty to the country in its hour of need. This reflection suggests to us the fact, that the present reward of the faithful soldier… consists not only in a positive pleasure of the highest kind, but in an escape from an evil, the greatest of all others, the lashings of a guilty conscience. I say the present reward, in contradistinction to that ultimate reward, which must crown their labors in the vindication and establishment of the great principle of constitutional liberty for which they put them forth. Like a noble ship in the storm, it has gone down into the trough of the sea, and is submerged beneath mountain billows; its masts and rigging are swept away and its crew are paralyzed by the might of the elements; but when the calm returns, and the demons of the deep cease to lash it in their fury, it will rise buoyantly up; and if a sufficient number of its crew have clung faithfully to it, and are not washed overboard, it will soon be rigged anew, and move on in its course with that majesty and power which characterized it when it was first launched upon the main.”

-Llewellyn Shaver

“There comes a time when a moral man can’t obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Freedom to publish and read does not necessarily assure a society of justice and peace, but without these freedoms it has no assurance at all.”

-Myra Kostash

“I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.”

-R. Edward Lee

“The people will learn to feel the dignity of man. They will not merely demand their rights, which have been trampled in the dust, but themselves will take them – make them their own.”

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I have had a good opportunity of testing the utility of Colt’s pistols during the late Mexican War, and feel no hesitation in saying they are superior (in my opinion) to any other now known for cavalry. The danger of accidental explosion has been obviated by the late improvement. They go off clear. The cylinders revolve with great rapidity, and the distance they carry a ball (I mean the conical ball) is indeed surprising. Soldiers should be practiced in the use of them. They soon become easy to the hand; the aim you wish to draw can be easily caught; and when placed in the hands of those who understand the proper use of them, they are unquestionably the most formidable weapon ever used in battle. I therefore concur fully in the opinion that they can be used with the same advantage by the regular as volunteer forces.”

-Colonel Jack Hays, Texas Rangers

“Many law professors, and others who hold contempt for our Constitution, preach that the Constitution is a living document. Saying that the Constitution is a living document is the same as saying we don’t have a Constitution. For rules to mean anything, they must be fixed. How many people would like to play me in poker and have the rules be “living?” Depending on “evolving standards,” maybe my two pair could beat your flush.”

-Walter Williams

“We hold with Thomas Jefferson, to the inalienable right of communities to alter or abolish forms of government that have become oppressive or injurious.”

-New York Tribune

“I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

-Voltaire

“Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”

-Barry Goldwater

“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“At the core, the American citizen soldiers in World War II knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn’t want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.”

-Stephen Ambrose

“We cannot go on penalizing Americans for saving.”

-John Connally

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“What difference is it to me if a decision is forced upon me by a dictator or by half of my neighbors? Either way my right to free, peaceful action has been nullified.”

-Stephen H. Foerster

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“I’d rather live free with some peril than be a protected slave of government.”

-Dave Duffy

“The proper history of Texas is yet unpublished. The men who enacted the great deeds, rendering the Lone Star Republic famous, have generally died without writing what they aided in doing. Jonas Harrison wrote articles which stirred the heroic people and helped to strengthen the resolution to resist tyranny, but where are they?

R.M. Williamson was an outspoken advocate of a free government. He did more than any one man to nerve our people to strike out for liberty. He has been gathered to his fathers, and where are the evidences of his wonderful exertions. They are almost lost to the world. Gen. Thomas J. Rusk —brave, eloquent, and fearless — our Secretary of War when the revolution was at its most fearful height, after the Alamo and Goliad and their defenders had fallen; after the mistaken members of the Consultation had Illegally attempted to turn Gov. Smith out of office, and to Invade Mexico. Where is the historian who lived in these days of trouble and danger. Col.Frank Johnson wrote a history of Texas. He was an officer of the Texas army, was defeated at San Patricio. His work has never seen the light and perhaps never will. Gen. Rusk was at the battle of San Jacinto. He made an official report to President Burnet, and left no individual, private, account of that wonderful contest. Gen. Stephen F. Austin, the “father” of Texas, wrote a great deal. Up to the present time no one has assumed the responsibility to edit and publish his papers and his life.

Who can tell us of the career of Richard Ellis, the President of the Convention of I836? They met at Washington on the Brazos, and declared Texas Independent on the second day of March, I836. How little is known of the members of that memorable and distinguished company of men? Who has written a comprehensive life of Travis? of Bowie? And the heroes of the Alamo? What has been done to revive a correct memory of David G. Burnet? of Gen. Edward Burleson, who commanded the Texas Troops in 1835 when Gen. Cos surrendered San Antonio to him?” 1897

-John Salmon Ford

“Man yearns to see his individuality represented and reflected in the acts of his exertions—in property.”

-Francis Lieber

“People who object to weapons aren’t abolishing violence, they’re begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically ‘right.’ Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.” The Probability Broach

-Neil Smith

“We make our ends meet, we take what we need to survive…We were raised up on the Good Book, we learned about the land. We don’t take from Uncle Sam. It’s time to take a stand. It’s time to draw the line. You better take yours when you come to take mine…It’s about red, white and blue…We’re not the running kind. Mr. President, you are not taking mine.”

-Creed Fisher

“I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.”

-Andrew Jackson

“I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives…the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation. In 1997 during National Character Counts Week

-Bill Clinton 

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

-John Quincy Adams

“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” 18 Nov 1783

-William Pitt

“In interpreting the Constitution, it must never be forgotten that the Nation is made up of States to which are entrusted the powers of local government. And to them and to the people the powers not expressly delegated to the National Government are reserved.” Hammer v. Dagenhart, 1918

-U.S. Supreme Court

“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”

-Alexis de Tocqueville

“Tax reform means, “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.”

-Russell Long

“In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That’s pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it’s been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.”

-Stephen Ambrose

“Live free or die.”

-New Hampshire State Motto

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels — men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.”

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

“That alone is a just government which impartially secures to every man whatever is his own.” Essay on Property, March 29, 1792

-James Madison

“I’m pretty sure that the government is not going to save you. The Good Lord helps the ones that help themselves. You want to stand on your own two feet, and use some backbone, don’t go crawling on your knees, begging for help.”

-Chris Knight

“A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid down grade.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own Revolution.”

-Leonard E. Read

“I shall exert every faculty I possess in aiding to prevent the Constitution from being nullified, destroyed, or impaired; and even though I should see it fail, I will still, with a voice feeble, perhaps, but earnest as ever issued from human lips, and with extinguish, call on the people to come to its rescue.”

-Daniel Webster

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

-Abraham Lincoln

“Do not be quick to take offence, you will never find a gentleman who will willfully & without any cause real or imaginary offend another.”

-M.F. Maury

“The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.”

-William E. Simon

“Giving a politician access to your wallet is like giving a dog access to your refrigerator.”

–Tim Barber

“I walked through a county courthouse square. On a park bench, an old man was sitting there. I said, “Your old court house is kind of run down, He said, “No, it will do for our little town”. I said, “Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit, and that’s a ragged old flag you got hanging on it”. …He said “I don’t like to brag, but we’re kind of proud of That Ragged Old Flag…”You see, we got a little hole in that flag there, When Washington took it across the Delaware. and it got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it, writing “Say Can You See” It got a rip in New Orleans, with Packingham & Jackson tugging at its seams. And It almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though. She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville, And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill…and the south wind blew hard on That Ragged Old Flag. “On Flanders Field in World War I, she got a big hole from a Bertha Gun, She turned blood red in World War II. She hung limp, and low, a time or two, She was in Korea, Vietnam, She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam. She waved from our ships upon the briny foam and now they’ve about quit waving back here at home in her own good land here. She’s been abused, she’s been burned, dishonored, denied and refused, and the government for which she stands has been scandalized throughout out the land. And she’s getting thread bare, and she’s wearing thin, But she’s in good shape, for the shape she’s in. Because she’s been through the fire before and I believe she can take a whole lot more. “So we raise her up every morning and we bring her down slow every night, we don’t let her touch the ground, and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag. because I’m mighty proud of That Ragged Old Flag.”

-John Cash

“Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.”

-Richard Maybury

“We are not inclined to rebuke or censure the people of any of our sister States…suffering from injury goaded by insults and threatened with such outrages and wrongs for their bold determination to relieve themselves from such injustice and oppression by resorting to their ultimate and sovereign rights… Nor have we any doubt of the right of any State there being no common umpire between coequal sovereign States to judge for itself on its own responsibility as to the mode and measure of redress. The States each for itself exercised this sovereign power when they dissolved their connection with the British Empire.”

-R.M.T. Hunter

“When we hear a man say “Texan,” we involuntarily look to see if he has the lock-jaw or if he has ice in his mouth. There is no excuse for a man to use such a word in a mild climate. The genius of our language requires generally the termination “ian,” which is necessary to give a name to the inhabitants of that country. “Texian ” is the name for which we fought, and which shows ourselves independent of all foreign dictation. Let us stand up for the rights of the “old Texian” against the ruthless Goths and Vandals who are endeavoring to deprive him of that which has blazed so brilliantly from the folds of his banner over all his battlefields.” From a debate over the etymological correctness of the use of “Texan” vs. “Texian”,  February 5, 1851

-“The Texas Monument”

“The history of liberty is a history of resistance. “

–Woodrow Wilson

“The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” 1920’s

-Will Rogers

“The rapid changes through which the institutions of the country are now passing and the still more stupendous revolutions in the opinions of men remind us that we stand today upon the outer verge of a great historic cycle within which a completed past will shortly be enclosed Another cycle may touch its circumference but the events it shall embrace will be gathered around another historic centre and the future historian will pronounce that in stepping from the one to the other he has entered upon another and separate volume of the nation’s record. Let us who are soon to be in that past to which we properly belong see there are no gaps in the record Thus shall we discharge a duty to the fathers whose principles we inherit to the children who will then know whether to honor or to dishonor the sires that begot them and above all to the dead heroes sleeping on the vast battle plains…whose epitaph history yet waits to engrave upon their tombs.”

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“It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.”

-Charles M. Province

“The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection … The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.” On Liberty

-John Stuart Mill

“The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth” 1995

-Bill Clinton

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“If it is in the public interest to maintain an industry, it is clearly not in the public interest by the impact of regulatory authority to destroy its otherwise viable way of life.” Special Message to the Congress on Regulatory Agencies, April 13, 1961 Special Message to the Congress on Regulatory Agencies, April 13, 1961

-John F. Kennedy

“Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.”  Wealth of Nations

-Adam Smith

“Everyone thinks about changing the world, but no one thinks about changing himself.”

-Leo Tolstoy

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

-Plato

“Ineptness or corruption in the administration of a democratic government can and will be corrected by the people, if they are given the facts and the opportunity to act upon them. The important thing is to preserve that opportunity. This is a responsibility we all must share, and it should be paramount” Texas Governor’s Inaugural Address, 1953

-Allen Shivers

“I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty.”

-David Crockett

“…We must forevermore do honor to our heroic dead. We must forevermore cherish the sacred memories of those…years of unequal strife…The people that forgets its heroic dead is already dying at the heart, and we believe we shall be truer and better citizens of the United States if we are true to our past.”

-Randolph McKim

“Those who nourish the hope that it will be possible to keep central government free of the corrupting tendencies of power and to staff it with a freedom-loving elite, overestimate the virtues of both the electorate and the elected, and underestimate the normative power of structural processes even over well-intended functionaries.”

-Robert Nef

“The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.”

-William Graham

“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.”

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Have you ever noticed how statists are constantly “reforming” their own handiwork? Education reform. Health-care reform. Welfare reform. Tax reform. The very fact that they’re always busy “reforming” is an implicit admission that they didn’t get it right the first 50 times.”  The Freeman

-Lawrence W. Reed, economist

“This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.”

-P.J. O’Rourke

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The deadliest weapon in the world is a MARINE and his rifle!”

-John J. Pershing

“I would not have been worthy of my family name if I had arrived here safely and without losing something along the way”

-James Ewell Brown Stuart

“We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.”

-C.S. Lewis

“The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government…so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.”

-Franklin Pierce

“The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.”  March 3, 1947 

-Harry S. Truman

“Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.” June 26, 1963

 -John F. Kennedy

“There is nothing of political philosophy more plainly taught in history than the limited value of the Federal principle. It had been experimented upon in various ages of the world in the Amphictyonic Council in the Achsean league, in the United Provinces of Holland, in Mexico, in Central America, in Columbia and in the Argentine republic. In all these instances the form of government established upon it had become extinct or had passed into the alternative of consolidation or anarchy and disintegration. Indeed it is plain enough that such a form of government in the resource only of small and weak communities that it is essentially temporary in its nature and that it has never been adopted by States which had approached a mature condition and had passed the period of pupillage. It is not to be denied that the Federal principle is valuable in peculiar circumstances and for temporary ends.”

-Ed Pollard

“[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”

– Edward Gibbon

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.”

-Somerset Maugham

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

-Winston Churchill

“No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788

-James Madison

“Somehow I learned that I belonged with my people and that I had a responsibility to contribute to them. I will participate in changing the situations of injustice and inequality that I encounter because they deny people their rights and destroy their potential.”

-Dr. Antonia Pantoja

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

-Mark Twain

”Love your country but fear its government.“

New England folk wisdom

“Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we’d call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that’s exactly what thieves do — redistribute income.”

-Walter Williams

“The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.”

-Andrew Jackson

The communists fear Christianity more as a way of life than as a weapon. In short, there is room in a totalitarian system for churches- but there is no room for God. The claim of the State must be total, and no other loyalty, and no other philosophy of life can be tolerated. Commencement Address, Assumption College, June 3, 1955

-John F. Kennedy

“Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I’m not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.”

-John Wayne

“The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”

-Lao Tsu

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.”

-Thomas Paine

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The Works of John Adams, ed. C. F. Adams, Boston: Little, Brown Co., 1851, 4:31

-John Adams

“The character of the Texas Ranger is now well known by both friend and foe. As a mounted volunteer, he has had no counterpart in any age or any country.”

-Luther Giddings

“They came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. And then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.”  in 1945; from “Political Quotations”, Daniel B. Baker, ed.

Rev. Martin Niemoeller, a Protestant minister in Nazi Germany

“You may not like my appearance… You may not like my song…You may not like the way I talk, but you like the way I’m gone. I’m a free born man”

-Jimmy Martin

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.”

-Barry Goldwater

“Nothing 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” Mapp vs. Ohio

-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark 

“The graves of the dead, with the grass overgrown, shall still be the footstool of liberty’s thrown.”

-Father Ryan

“A society’s worth isn’t measured by how much power is seized by its government but rather, how much power is reserved for its people.” Liberty Rises

-Jack Vega

“It stands to reason that where there’s sacrifice, there’s someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there is service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be master.”

-Ayn Rand

“…You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer…”

-Abraham Lincoln

“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”

-Sam Houston

“If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

-Noah Webster

“I would be proud of the thought that our youngest Boy–Yes Darling little Jimmie, will after a while be able and I trust willing to take his Father’s place in the field, and fight until he dies, rather than be a Slave…”

-James Griffen

“Solve” and “Problems” are not in the Constitution.

-Doug Newman

“History should be accessible.”

-Grady McWhiney 

“There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.”

-Epitaph of Matilda Joslyn Gage

“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

-Winston Churchill

“The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.”

-Frank Chodorov

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