Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-06-27 Jun 27, 2005If we cannot learn, if the only effect upon us of the presence of the dynamiter in our midst is to make us multiply punishments, invent restrictions, increase the number of our official spies, forbid public meetings, interfere with the press, put up gratings -- as in one country they propose to do -- in our House of Commons, scrutinize visitors under official microscopes, request them, as at Vienna, and I think now at Paris also, to be good enough to leave their greatcoats in the vestibules ... I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.~ Auberon HerbertThe Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.~ Elmer DavisThere is no Freedom without Courage.~ Eric Schaub Jun 24, 2005Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroThings in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell.~ Donald R. CresseyYou cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.~ G. R. Capp Jun 23, 2005Laws which prescribe what everyone must believe, and forbid men to say or write anything against this or that opinion, are often passed to gratify, or rather to appease the anger of those who cannot abide independent minds.~ Baruch SpinozaAdvances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard HaischAnonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize the oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all... It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Jun 22, 2005The president of the American Bar Association begins a nationwide tour, giving speeches on the dangers of Treaty Law: 'The doctrine that the treaty power is unlimited and omnipotent and may be used to OVERRIDE the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...is a doctrine of recent origin and largely derived from Missouri v. Holland.'~ Frank E. HolmanAt the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisGive me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild Jun 21, 2005No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.~ Constitution of the United StatesLove of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.~ François Duc de La RochefoucauldUnder a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.~ Henry David Thoreau Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print