Giuseppe Pecchio Quotes

All honor to Jefferson—the man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document an abstract truth applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there that to-day and in all coming days it shall be a rebuke and a stumbling-block to the harbingers of reappearing tyranny and oppression.

Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all those who trample under foot the glorious Constitution and the people's rights.

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have; it is about those who gave it to us.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

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

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.

Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.

The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.

My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Brown’s execution will make the gallows as glorious as the cross.

We are not going to subjugate ourselves to a constitution ... signing away all our rights and agreeing to be slaves.

Liberty has its roots in blood.

For God and Country, we associate ourselves together for the following purposes: To uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America; to maintain law and order; to foster and perpetuate a 100% Americanism.

A traitor is a good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.

The two most important documents in the world are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. It is better that a whole generation pass away by violent death, than they be violated.

If it [the American flag] is not defended, it is defamed. We can't forget the importance of the flag to the ideals of liberty and honor and freedom. To burn the flag, to dishonor it, is simply wrong.

Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution.

… for promoting the liberty, safety, and interest of America.

We pledge to you the sacrifice of our lives and property in support of whatever measures the dignity and liberties of the free sovereign and independent State may seem to your wisdom to demand.

Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

The happy union of these states is a wonder: their constitution a miracle: their example the hope of liberty throughout the world