Alan Keyes Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

  Alan Keyes

  Government, Giving, Liberty

  Rally for the Ten Commandments, Hillsdale, Michigan, www.ontheissues.org. February 7, 2004.

• How does it secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity, to those generations yet unborn, to kill them, aborting them in the womb?

  Alan Keyes

  Blessing, Liberty, Doe

  Alan Keyes' Virginia High School Appearance, www.keyesarchives.com. February 28, 2000.

• We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.

  Alan Keyes

  Children, Mean, Government

• Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

  Alan Keyes

  Tired, Tyrants, People

• We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.

  Alan Keyes

  Law, Taught Us, America

• There can be no self-government without self-discipline. There can be no self-government without self-control. There can be no liberty unless it is grounded in moral discipline and the ability to do what is right.

  Alan Keyes

  Government, Self, Discipline

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the California Republican Party Convention in Sacramento, California, www.keyesarchives.com. February 27, 1999.

• From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

  Alan Keyes

  War, Hero, Liberty

  Alan Keyes' Speech during Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

• At the root of the assault on our liberties is, in fact, an assault on our character--an assault that assumes that we are not good enough to be free, and that aims to make sure that we are no longer strong enough, courageous enough, disciplined enough to be a free people.

  Alan Keyes

  Strong, Character, Roots

  Alan Keyes' Speech at Rally in Idaho Falls, Idaho, www.keyesarchives.com. May 12, 2000.

• 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.

  Alan Keyes

  White, People, House

  "New barbarians". mobile.wnd.com. May 6, 2000.

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