We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or the right of the people to peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. -First Amendment
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I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to allow his vision wherever it takes him.
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.
He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.
Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in few words
Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each according to his own rational judgment. Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.
When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred.
A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
