“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” Harper Lee, (1926- ) American author, 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist for ‘To Kill…

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity…

“It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.” Friedrich August von Hayek, (1899-1992), Nobel Laureate of Economic Sciences 1974. Source:…

“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, and son of US Secretary of State, Charles Adams. Source: The Education…

“Among the natural Rights of the Colonists are these: First, a Right to Life; secondly, to Liberty; thirdly, to Property; together with the Right to support and defend them in the best Manner they can. Those are evident Branches of,…

“Men being by nature all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political power of another without his own consent which is done by agreeing with other men, to join…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of…

“The Natural Liberty of Man is to be free from any Superior Power on Earth, and not to be under the Will or Legislative Authority of Man, but to have only the Law of Nature for his Rule.” John Locke, (1632-1704) English…

“[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This nobody has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end therefore,…

“Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.” François Duc de La Rochefoucauld, (1613-1680) French author. Source Reference François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Quote

“Conscience warns us before it reproaches us” Comtesse Diane, [Marie Josephine de Suin de Beausacq]. Source: Maximes de la vie, 1908. Source Reference Comtesse Diane Quote

“Has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of…