Luke Scott Quotes

I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.

We Americans think, in every country in transition, there's a Thomas Jefferson hiding behind some rock or a James Madison beyond one sand dune.

Liberty regulated by law is the underlying principle of our institutions.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly. That is, when we set up this country, abuse of people by Government was a big problem. So if you read the Constitution, it's rooted in the desire to limit the ability of — Government's ability to mess with you, because that was a huge problem. It can still be a huge problem. But it assumed that people would basically be raised in coherent families, in coherent communities, and they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

America is truly special because it's founded on an idea. It's the ideological and philosophical equivalent of a formless God, in other words, you know? It's, again, the only great country in the world that it is formed out of words.

The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.

I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Our Founding Fathers would be proud of all that America has achieved, and will continue to achieve, in the coming years.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.

I'm honored to serve as mayor of my hometown where our founders started America with three simple words: 'We, the people.' And when they said 'people' they didn't mean 'corporations.'

This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.