“In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution.” TwoStatesGovernmentUnitedLibertyUnited StatesEffectsConstitutionIndependentCongressLibertarianLibertarianismReservesReservedFederal ReserveLimiting GovernmentMoney Power Author:Wright Patman
“The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.” ImportantPurposeReligiousLibertyAtheismEffectsSecureSolePersecutionChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateFounding Fathers ChristianSeparation Between Church And StateReligious LibertyChristian FatherReligious PersecutionChristian Persecution Author:Oliver Ellsworth
“Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.” LibertyEffectsDangerousProduceExcessServitude Author:Zoroaster
“Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.” PeopleIfsWould BeSpiritHouseWhiteLibertyWonderMoralEffectsClintonWhite HouseOutrageEnvelopesOminousPerversityUnequivocal Author:Alan Keyes
“Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.” WantFeelsSoundLibertyEffectsWhat You WantIntimateSensationsViewersMono Author:Bruno Dumont
“Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.” MenHas BeensChurchResultsLibertyAtheismTeachingEffectsCivilizationPositive AtheismOppressionFallenDepartmentSmallestAdvancing Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.” IfsGovernmentWould BeOrderStrongPoorLibertyDemocracyRichDoubtEffectsMilitaryPropertyDemocraticSavedSmallestCivilisationPlunderDemocratic Government Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.” PeopleIfsShouldMayLongWarStatesFactsCareLastsLibertyAcceptingPowerEconomyAliveEffectsWillingConsequenceEconomicsArgumentBasesConstitutionPropertyDebtRelatePermanentEngagement Author:Robert H. Jackson
“... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.” PeopleStatesGovernmentAbleEarthCan DoLibertyWatchesEffectsOperationsOpponentsAssumptionFederal GovernmentGuardianLegislatureState LegislaturesJealously Book:Selected Writings of James Madison Source: Selected Writings of James Madison
“What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .” DoeMomentsRememberLibertyEffectsDependsEasierDemandConstitutionConstantProtectionSurrenderMotiveGuaranteesPreservationZealSuppressionOutlawMisguidedReformersAlertness Author:William O. Douglas