Who can be against progress after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive progress is marked not be how free you are but how much government can 'do' for you.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations League of Nations. But it was the conservatives Republicans that stood up against him.
All government of course is against liberty.
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.
Potentially a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest logic loses. So expect more meaningless if not harmful 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.
There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed but fine up against a wall.
In my country of South Africa we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings children of the same God by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.
That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.
Communism has decided against God against Christ against the Bible and against all religion.
If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand I can do no other so help me God. Amen.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception temptation accusation even persecution.
I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art there can be moments of God.