Liberty Quotations | Page 4

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

You can only be free if I am free.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

England has not wholly escaped the curse which must ever befall a free government which holds extensive provinces in subjection; for, although she has not lost her liberty or fallen into anarchy, yet we behold the population of England crushed to the earth by the superincumbent weight of debt and taxation, which may one day terminate in revolution.

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

Ted Kennedy's inspiration will loom large over our politics for years to come, uplift us in the healthcare fight, and help to achieve his dream of liberty and justice for all.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

The right of such control is already admitted by the State Socialists, though they maintain that, as a matter of fact, the individual would be allowed a much larger liberty than he now enjoys.

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general by the good.

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Originally, I thought the story of the Alamo was all these men defending their liberty when they could have left, knowing they were going to die. That's without a doubt what appealed to me, the romance and the nobility. But, as in life, the more you dig the more you find out that things weren't quite like that.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.