Quotes

Liberty

And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms…The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with… Read More ›

Funeral

I didn’t attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar (February 21, 1816 – January 31, 1895) was an influential American politician, lawyer, and justice from Massachusetts. Long attributed to Mark… Read More ›

Ideas

Superior minds are concerned with ideas. Average minds are concerned with events. Inferior minds are concerned with personalities. John Dean “Jeff” Cooper (May 10, 1920 – September 25, 2006) was recognized as the father of what is commonly known as… Read More ›

Encroachment

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent…The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, American lawyer… Read More ›