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| Michigan Constitution | | Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state. | |
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| Montana Constitution | | The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. | |
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| Nevada Constitution | | Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes. | |
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| New Hampshire Constitution | | All persons have the right to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves, their families, their property and the state. | |
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| New Hampshire Constitution | | The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind. | |
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| Constitution of the Irish Free State | | All lawful authority comes from God to the people. | |
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| Constitution of the United States | | No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury... nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any Criminal Case to be a witness against himself, not be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. | |
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| Constitution of UNESCO | | Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed. | |
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| Pennsylvania Constitution | | That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing, and publishing their sentiments; therefore, the freedom of the press ought not to be restrained. | |
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| U. S. Constitution | | The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government... | |
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| U.S. Constitution | | No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. | |
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| Alistair Cooke | | America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence. | |
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| Alistair Cooke | | As for the rage to believe that we have found the secret of liberty in general permissiveness from the cradle on, this seems to me a disastrous sentimentality, which, whatever liberties it sets loose, loosens also the cement that alone can bind society into a stable compound -- a code of obeyed taboos. I can only recall the saying of a wise Frenchman that `liberty is the luxury of self-discipline.' Historically, those peoples that did not discipline themselves had discipline thrust on them from the outside. That is why the normal cycle in the life and death of great nations has been first a powerful tyranny broken by revolt, the enjoyment of liberty, the abuse of liberty -- and back to tyranny again. As I see it, in this country -- a land of the most persistent idealism and the blandest cynicism -- the race is on between its decadence and its vitality. | |
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| Alistair Cooke | | Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others. | |
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| Samuel Cooke | | Fidelity to the public requires that the laws be as plain and explicit as possible, that the less knowing may understand, and not be ensnared by them, while the artful evade their force. | |
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| Charles Horton Cooley | | So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. | |
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| Marvin Cooley | | We must pity the poor wretched, timid soul who is too faint-hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the song of the dammed: “I can’t fight back; I have too much to lose; I own too much property; I have worked too hard to get what I have; They will put me out of business if I resist; I might go to jail; I have my family to think about.” Such poor miserable creatures have misplaced values and are hiding their cowardice behind pretended family responsibility -- blindly refusing to see that the most glorious legacy that one can bequeath to posterity is liberty; and that the only true security is liberty. | |
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| Marvin Cooley | | I will no longer pay for the destruction of my country, family, and self. Damn tyranny! Damn the Federal Reserve liars and thieves! Damn all pettifogging, oath-breaking US attorneys and judges.… I will see you all in Hell and shed my blood before I will be robbed of one more dollar to finance a national policy of treason, plunder, and corruption | |
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| Thomas Cooley | | The right is general.
It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision
that the right to keep and bear arms
was only guaranteed to the militia;
but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
The militia, as has been explained elsewhere,
consists of those persons who, under the law,
are liable to the performance of military duty,
and are officered and enrolled for service
when called upon. . . .
[I]f the right were limited to those enrolled,
the purpose of the guarantee might be defeated altogether
by the action or the neglect to act
of the government it was meant to hold in check.
The meaning of the provision undoubtedly is,
that the people, from whom the militia must be taken,
shall have the right to keep and bear arms,
and they need no permission or regulation of law
for that purpose. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation is not to destroy those who have already secured success, but to create conditions under which everyone will have a better chance to be successful. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom. Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. We do not need more government, we need more culture. We do not need more law, we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.... If the foundation is firm, the superstructure will stand. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in
some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts....
Self-government means self-reliance. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | Nature is inexorable. If men do not follow the truth they cannot live. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of great men to come, who shall be able to instruct, to lead, and to inspire. A people who worship at the shrine of true greatness will themselves be truly great. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | No other theory is adequate to explain or comprehend the Declaration of Independence. It is the product of the spiritual insight of the people. We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create our Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren sceptre in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. | |
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| Calvin Coolidge | | Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest. | |
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| Anthony Ashley Cooper | | Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a free man. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base, is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly-prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | Commerce is entitled to a complete and efficient protection in all its legal rights, but the moment it presumes to control a country, or to substitute its fluctuating expedients for the high principles of natural justice that ought to lie at the root of every political system, it should be frowned on, and rebuked. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. | |
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| James Fenimore Cooper | | Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals. | |
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| Col. Jeff Cooper | | An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. | |
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| Jeff Cooper | | An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. | |
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| Thomas Cooper | | The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power. | |
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| Thomas Cooper | | Every politician, every member of the clerical profession, ought to incur the reasonable suspicion of being an interested supporter of false doctrines, who becomes angry at opposition, and endeavors to cast an odium on free inquiry. Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. | |
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| Bill Copeland | | When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback. | |
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| Copernicus | | Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, `with both eyes open'. | |
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| Alan Corenk | | Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. | |
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| II Corinthians | | Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. | |
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| Robert Corn-Revere | | Censorship is contagious, and experience with this culture of regulation teaches us that regulatory enthusiasts herald each new medium of communications as another opportunity to spread the disease. | |
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| Pierre Corneille | | Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven. | |
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| Bill Cosby | | I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. | |
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| Joseph Costello | | He [a U.S. Senator] knows he's got to buy time on my radio station, so he's going to lend me an ear. We're keeping them alive back home and that's why the newspaper and radio and TV people are more effective lobbyists. | |
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| John Cotton | | If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down. | |
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| Robert J. Cottrol | | In the Jim Crow South, for example, government failed and indeed refused to protect blacks from extra-legal violence. Given our history, it's stunning we fail to question those who would force upon us a total reliance on the state for defense. | |
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| Andrew J. Coulson | | In education markets, like the Asian tutoring industry, top teachers are superstars who get to design curricula for thousands or even millions of students and train scores or hundreds of other teachers to use their effective methods. Quality providers expand and are emulated by competitors, and there is a powerful incentive for meaningful innovation. ... One teacher in Korea’s private tutoring sector made $2 million last year because his web-based employer has profit sharing and he’s brilliant at what he does, so he gets tons of students. That’s what should have happened to [Jaime] Escalante. That’s the sort of success that should greet excellence in education at all levels. It doesn’t because we don’t have a market. | |
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| Council on Foreign Relations | | [A] possible further difficulty is cited, namely, that arising from the Constitutional provision that only Congress may declare war. This argument is countered with the contention that a treaty will override this barrier, let alone the fact that our participation in such police action as might be recommended by the international security organization need not necessarily be construed as war. | |
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| Council on Foreign Relations | | The sovereignty fetish is still so strong in the public mind, that there would appear to be little chance of winning popular assent to American membership in anything approaching a super-state organization. Much will depend on the kind of approach which is used in further popular education. | |
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| Katie Couric | | Some suggested over the weekend that it's wrong to expect Elian Gonzalez to live in a place that tolerates no dissent or freedom of political expression. They were talking about Miami. | |
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| Florida Supreme Court | | We consistently have adhered to the principle that the will of the people is the paramount consideration. Our goal today…[is] to reach the result that reflects the will of the voters…. The laws are intended to facilitate and safeguard the right of each voter to express his or her will in the context of our representative democracy. Technical statutory requirements must not be exalted over the substance of this right. | |
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| Oregon Supreme Court | | The nearer the power to enact laws and control public servants lies with the great body of the people, the more nearly does a government take unto itself the form of a republic -- not in name alone, but in fact. | |
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| Georges Courteline | | If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable. | |
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| Norman Cousins | | History is a vast early warning system. | |
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| Norman Cousins | | A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life. | |
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| Norman Cousins | | I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete. Human unity is the fulfillment of diversity. It is the harmony of opposites. It is a many-stranded texture, with color and depth. | |
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| Steven R. Covey | | Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside of ourselves will affect us. | |