Liberty Quotes

"At the start of this nation’s unique experiment with individual sovereignty and limited government, “Taxation without representation is tyranny” was the watchword of the American Revolution. For our Founding Fathers, a level of taxation of only a few cents on a dollar, siphoned off to a faraway and arrogant bureaucracy, was enough to ignite a revolution enough to grab the trusty musket off the wall. Today, in contrast, if we dare to startle the more panicky among us by buying a good rabbit gun, the government’s there at the cash register to check our papers and seize $46 on every $100." -Ralph Reiland Professor of Economics, Robert Morris College Source: Taxed to Death
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ralph.Reiland.Quote.3895

"Nothing whatever but the constitutional law, the political structure, of these United States protects any American from arbitrary seizure of his property and his person, from the Gestapo and the Storm Troops, from the concentration camp, the torture chamber, the revolver at the back of his neck in a cellar." -Rose Lane
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Rose.Lane.Quote.0D76

"How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist urges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people." -Walter E. Williams (1936- ) Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University Source: All It Takes Is Guts
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