Liberty Quotations | Page 3

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

Man is free; yet we must not suppose that he is at liberty to do everything he pleases, for he becomes a slave the moment he allows his actions to be ruled by passion.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nations history.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

The liberties and freedoms which we hold dear and we recognize and cherish and respect guide the way we gather information in the United States

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Most people today don't feel that Barack Obama is on our side. We sense he's incapable of doing what Roosevelt did, of loving his country so much that he was willing to run great risks in order to advance its cause, to free others from a new Dark Age - and protect our own liberty in the process.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

Life in cyberspace seems to be shaping up exactly like Thomas Jefferson would have wanted: founded on the primacy of individual liberty and a commitment to pluralism, diversity, and community.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Americans cherish our liberty and don't want government or corporations to take away our freedoms.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.

I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious actors - we, together, drink deeply from wells of freedom, liberty and opportunity that we did not dig.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.