Quotes about liberty
liberty danger restriction
Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.
liberty framers fragile-things
The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we. William J. Brennan
liberty resistance political-freedom
The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Woodrow Wilson
liberty libertarian i-can
I can spend your money better than you can. William J. Clinton
liberty never-forget destruction
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.
liberty chaos dictatorship
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship. Will Durant
liberty anarchy dies
As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
liberty dictatorship license
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
liberty earning taxation
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Robert Nozick
liberty taxation politics
Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
liberty ends american-liberty
Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends. Samuel West
liberty matter criminals
The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state: but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published. Every freeman has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public: to forbid this, is to destroy the freedom of the press: but if he publishes what is improper, mischievous, or illegal, he must take the consequence of his own temerity. William Blackstone
liberty assuming
The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best. Vincent Bugliosi
liberty virtue found
When was public virtue to be found when private was not? William Cowper
liberty
Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs. Walt Whitman
liberty use reader
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide. Sarah Fielding
liberty fraternity form
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality. Roger Scruton
liberty nooses all-things
I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter. William Wallace
liberty train
Liberty trains for liberty. W. E. B. Du Bois
liberty complaining way
We must complain. Yes, plain, blunt complaint, ceaseless agitation, unfailing exposure of dishonesty and wrong - this is the ancient, unerring way to liberty and we must follow it.
liberty democracy indispensable
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. Walter Lippmann
liberty world savages
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. William Butler Yeats
liberty fundamentals socialism
It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism. Winston Churchill
liberty way remember
Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it. Tracie Peterson
liberty messages individual
The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious. Vince Vaughn
liberty progress politics
Liberty is the breath of progress. Robert Green Ingersoll
liberty vain
Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
liberty world paradise
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.
liberty sake
Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
liberty pleasure stills
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless. Samuel Johnson
liberty individual considering
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.
liberty clamour grants
They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.
liberty libertarian economic
Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other. William E. Simon