Quotes about liberty
liberty affliction crutches
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. James A. Baldwin
liberty requirements instruments
The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression. Herbert Marcuse
liberty generations next
Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves. Florence Ellinwood Allen
liberty elements dignity
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed. Federica Montseny
liberty doe gender
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty! Fanny Burney
liberty politics libertarian
The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. Eugene McCarthy
liberty bureaucracy threat
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
liberty steps injury
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. Frances Wright
liberty virtue providence
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? George Washington
liberty unions virtue
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
liberty triumph despotism
What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.
liberty world earth
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
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Money is coined liberty. Fyodor Dostoevsky
liberty united-states oppression
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you. George W. Bush
liberty young century
This young century will be liberty's century.
liberty path world
The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
liberty habit
Liberty can change habits.
liberty poverty england
The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty. George Orwell
liberty ribbons
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?
liberty willing wounds
I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Jean Cocteau
liberty constitution glorious
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document! Frederick Douglass
liberty chains
Liberty for all; chains for none.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
liberty purpose slavery
The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.
liberty isolation possibility
Liberty is the possibility of isolation. Fernando Pessoa
liberty prison
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison. George Herbert
liberty literature earth
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. Franz Kafka
liberty tradition abraham
I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh. Hanoi Hannah
liberty utterance speech
As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is 'inseparable' from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech, moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions. Gertrude Himmelfarb
liberty threat security
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats. Harry Browne
liberty libertarian campaigns
Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.
liberty body use
Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body. Imran Khan
liberty security
Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.