Today's Quotes on Liberty

"Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called.
Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it.
(But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

"For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord.
Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

"You were bought with a price;
do not become slaves of men.

"So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. "
(1Co 7:20-24 ESV)

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster
(1782-1852), US Senator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.9BFA

"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government."
-- Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.DE9E


"The deterioration of every government
begins with the decay of the principles
on which it was founded."
-- C. L. De Montesquieu
[Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat] (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu
Source: The Spirit of the Laws, VIII, 1752
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C..L..De.Montesquieu.Quote.8108