Liberty Quotes

"But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." -- Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Declaration.of.Independence.Quote.68BF

"It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder." -- Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before -- and immediately following -- the French Revolution of February 1848. June 1850 Source: "The Law" by Frederic Bastiat (1848)
http://liberty-tree.ca/research/TheLaw
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederic.Bastiat.Quote.3F1A

"I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class." -- Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Frederick.Douglass.Quote.733D