QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“Let us consider, brethren, we are struggling for our best birthrights and inheritance, which being infringed, renders all our blessings precarious in their enjoyments, and, consequently triffling in their value. Let us disappoint the Men who are raising themselves on the ruin of this Country. Let us convince every invader of our freedom, that we will be as free as the constitution our fathers recognized, will justify.” A State of the Rights of the Colonists 1772

-Samuel Adams

“When even one American — who has done nothing wrong — is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril.”

-Harry S. Truman

“An ELECTIVE DESPOTISM was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.” Federalist No. 48, February 1, 1788

-James Madison

“The great and chief end therefore, of [Men] uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.” Second Treatise of Government 1690

-John Locke

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” McCullough v. Maryland, March 6, 1819

-John Marshall

“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny”

-Calvin Coolidge

“There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.”

-Barack H. Obama

“What country can preserve its liberties, if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” Letter to William Stephens Smith November 13, 1787

-Thomas Jefferson

“To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.” Speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788

-James Madison

“They’ll grind us up in a big machine. They’ll feed us all on the same beliefs, the holy dollar and a credit card. But we have a way of doing things, and no banker is going to steal from me. They want to tear it all apart…There’s a bible on the table, because he bled for what we have, and…I was raised in this land…I guess that’s something you don’t understand.”

-Cody Cannon

“There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.”

-Margaret Thatcher

“…The man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all coming days, it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the very harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.” Letter to Henry L. Pierce & others, April 6, 1859

-Abraham Lincoln

“This is what America is about when it comes to understanding that it is equal opportunity versus equal achievement. Each and every one of us has the opportunity for greatness in this country.”

-Allen West

“I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” Speech During Virginia’s Convention to Ratify the Constitution

-George Mason

“One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Letter from the Birmingham Jail

-Martin Luther King

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“God will give me justice if I am to be punished for the opinions of other people, who do not know my heart I can’t help it.”

-Stand Waitie, Cherokee Chief

“There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.”

-Harry S. Truman

“The patriot volunteer, fighting for his country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.”

-Thomas Jackson

“When these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for the best in the American dream and the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, and thusly, carrying our whole nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in the formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” April 1963

-Martin Luther King

“Uncle Sam comes around getting both hands in your pocket. People out there are just barely getting by. Render unto Caesar no more than you have to… Keep the Lord in your heart, and keep your powder dry…”

-Chris Knight

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! – I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”

-Patrick Henry

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.”

-Andrew Jackson

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.”

-Winston Churchill

“The American character has been not only religious, idealistic, and patriotic, but because of these it has been essentially individual.” Independence Day Oration, July 4th, 1946

-John F. Kennedy

“Hey, I’ve got Rights. I’ve got some Rights too.”

-Randall H. Williams, Jr.

When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty and property of the people, from whom its legitimate powers are derived, and for the advancement of whose happiness it was instituted, and so far from being a guarantee for the enjoyment of those inestimable and inalienable rights, becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their oppression.

When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the everready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.

When, long after the spirit of the constitution has departed, moderation is at length so far lost by those in power, that even the semblance of freedom is removed, and the forms themselves of the constitution discontinued, and so far from their petitions and remonstrances being regarded, the agents who bear them are thrown into dungeons, and mercenary armies sent forth to force a new government upon them at the point of the bayonet.

When, in consequence of such acts of malfeasance and abdication on the part of the government, anarchy prevails, and civil society is dissolved into its original elements. In such a crisis, the first law of nature, the right of self-preservation, the inherent and inalienable rights of the people to appeal to first principles, and take their political affairs into their own hands in extreme cases, enjoins it as a right towards themselves, and a sacred obligation to their posterity, to abolish such government, and create another in its stead, calculated to rescue them from impending dangers, and to secure their future welfare and happiness.

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These, and other grievances, were patiently borne by the people of Texas, untill they reached that point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. We then took up arms in defence of the national constitution. We appealed to our Mexican brethren for assistance. Our appeal has been made in vain. Though months have elapsed, no sympathetic response has yet been heard from the Interior. We are, therefore, forced to the melancholy conclusion, that the Mexican people have acquiesced in the destruction of their liberty, and the substitution therfore of a military government; that they are unfit to be free, and incapable of self government.

The necessity of self-preservation, therefore, now decrees our eternal political separation.

-From Texas Declaration of Independence

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”

-Harry S. Truman

“My purpose is to make my narrative as truthful as possible.”

-George Custer

“…I’ve never needed government to hold my hand. And I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again, because my family has always fought and died to save this land. “

-Aaron Lewis

“If Lost, a cause of action is false. If true, it is not lost.”

-Henry Wise

“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

-John F. Kennedy

“Let us never forget this fundamental truth:  The State has no source of money other than the money people themselves earn.”

-Margaret Thatcher

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“I have a dream that my little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

— Martin Luther King

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”

–Thomas Jefferson

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

–Winston Churchill

“In Revolutionary times, the cry “No taxation without representation” was not an economic complaint. Rather, it was directly traceable to the eminently fair and just principle that no sovereign power has the right to govern without the consent of the governed. Anything short of that was tyranny. It was against this tyranny that the colonists “fired the shot heard ’round the world.” Independence Day Oration, July 4th, 1946

–John F. Kennedy

“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence.”

— George Washington

“As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.”

–George B. McLellan

“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

The Declaration of Independence…is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution’s refusal to ‘deny or disparage’ other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges’ list against laws duly enacted by the people.

–-Dr. Laura Schlessinger

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QUOTES ON LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, TRUTH AND DUTY:

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
― William Penn

“It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won’t come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day.”
― Ronald Reagan, The Quest for Peace, the Cause of Freedom

“A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.”
― Socrates, The Apology

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God’s scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. ”
― Philip Yancey

“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”
― Edmund Burke, Speech on Conciliation with America 

“Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.”
― Thomas Paine

“In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Today, no less than five Supreme Court justices are on record, either through their opinions or speeches (or both), that they will consult foreign law and foreign-court rulings for guidance in certain circumstances. Of course, policymakers are free to consult whatever they want, but not justices. They’re limited to the Constitution and the law.”
― Mark R. Levin

“Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. . . do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.”
― Exodus 23 2 NIVHoly Bible

“If there is any society among robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstain
from robbing and murdering one another. So beneficence is less essential than justice is to the existence of society; a lack of beneficence will make a society uncomfortable, but the prevalence of injustice will utterly destroy it.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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