Quotes about liberty
liberty way justified
Anytime anyone is enslaved, or in any way deprived of his liberty, if that person is a human being, as far as I am concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again. Malcolm X
liberty opponents earth
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them. Mahatma Gandhi
liberty license
Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.
liberty prison commodity
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.
liberty democracy action
Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
liberty kingdoms dare
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.
liberty revolution unexpected
Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations. John Adams
liberty morality founding-fathers-religion
Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.
liberty foundation republic
Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.
liberty principles foundation
[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
liberty secured private-property
Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.
liberty libertarian pro-gun
Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
liberty mark dissent
Dissent is the mark of freedom. Jacob Bronowski
liberty conformity lifetime
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
liberty be-good understood
But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, A universal licence to be good. Hartley Coleridge
liberty resistance service-to-god
Resistance to tyranny is service to God. James Madison
liberty worship individual
Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. James Larkin
liberty important alive
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death... John Howard
liberty pieces baggage
A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life. John Hancock
liberty essentials trials
The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security. John Garamendi
liberty demand politics
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed. John Dewey
liberty expansion contradiction
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion. Joan Miro
liberty individual abstract
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
liberty be-careful interest
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.
liberty libertarian cases
There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion. Frank Chodorov
liberty
Liberty must not be abused. Louisa May Alcott
liberty use ordinary
Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.
liberty useless may
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.... John Marshall
liberty empires graves
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty. John Lothrop Motley
liberty violence restraint
Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others John Locke
liberty sith applause
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. George Lucas
liberty use speak
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it. John Kenneth Galbraith
liberty absence deny
Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.