“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
― Maya Angelou
Quotes
Freedom Quote of the Day #20
“Jefferson’s fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.”
― Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education
Freedom Quote of the Day #20-December 31, 2016
Freedom Quote of the Day #19
“America’s forefathers had a vision of a spiritually enlightened utopia, in which freedom of thought, education of the masses, and scientific advancement would replace the darkness of outdated religious superstition.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
Freedom Quote of the Day #19-December 30, 2016
American’s Generosity
“In general, we have been too generous in the gift of office and power… to men who do not understand the genius of America and who have little awareness of the backgrounds of the American way of life…. Most of us will agree that it makes little difference where or when a man was born if he had this vivid sense of American history, if he has learned to put Country above Party. … if freedom means more than personal security and if he refuses to tolerate appeasement of tyranny as the price of peace.”
~McIlyar H. Lichliter,American Clergy and 33rd Degree Mason
Freedom Quote of the Day #17
“The Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to bare the secrets of government and inform the people.”
~Hugo Black
Freedom Quote of the Day #17 – December 26, 2016
Freedom Quote of the Day #16
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington
Freedom Quote of the Day #16-December 25, 2016
Freedom Quote of the Day #15
“… rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our own will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual”
— Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany – 1819)
Freedom Quote of the Day #15 – December 24, 2016
Freedom Quote of the Day #14
“I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
― Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817
Freedom Quote of the Day #14a
“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”
— John Quincy Adams (attributed to Adams, by his contemporaries)
Freedom Quote of the Day #14-December 24, 2016
The Emoluments Clause
A great read…
The Case for Donald Trump’s Impeachability
By Jesse Singal
“the Emoluments Clause, a previously obscure-to-most-of-us provision in Article I of the Constitution dealing with corruption and curry-favoring at the hands of foreign governments.”
The Platinum Dragon 