Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Saxby Chambliss

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Orson Scott Card

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

These Liberty girls, they don't have sex, but you can always play in the mud!!

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Otto Hermann Kahn

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.

Quintus Ennius

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Pope Benedict XVI

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.

Victor Hugo

When liberty returns, I will return.

Thomas Paine

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Thomas Sowell

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

Thomas Sowell

There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.

Thomas Sowell

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

Thomas Sowell

One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.

Walt Whitman

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.

Sarah Fielding

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.

Roger Scruton

[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.

Samuel West

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Richard Lovelace

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Tracie Peterson

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.

Vince Vaughn

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty is the breath of progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Samuel Johnson

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

Samuel Johnson

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.

Samuel Johnson

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

William Blackstone

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.

Vincent Bugliosi

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.

William Cowper

When was public virtue to be found when private was not?

Thomas B. Macaulay

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.