Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-10-27 Oct 27, 2005We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ~ Gerald W. JohnsonWith respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.~ James MadisonThe loyalists in the beginning of the late war objected to associating, arming and fighting, in defense of our liberties, because these measures were not constitutional. A free people should always be left... with every possible power to promote their own happiness.~ Pennsylvania Gazette Oct 26, 2005Freedom is always wise.~ Alexander MeiklejohnPolitics must be the battle of the principles... the principle of liberty against the principle of force.~ Auberon HerbertIt is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.~ Dorothy ThompsonA free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.~ Francis Picabia Oct 25, 2005No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah ArendtDiscipline must come through liberty... We do not consider an individual disciplined when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.~ Maria MontessoriForce (is) the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.~ Thomas Jefferson Oct 24, 2005It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.~ Ayn RandArbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness.~ George WashingtonForce without wisdom falls of its own weight.~ Horace Oct 21, 2005If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.~ A. K. GriffinLaws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.~ Frank HerbertThe minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer.~ Will Rogers Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print