Liberty Quotes - Page 101

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The hastily crafted [stimulus] bill, with its corrupt funding of ACORN and other favors, is a disgracefully irresponsible effort to expand the public sector, diminish the private sector, empower the autocrats, and further divest us of our individual liberties - all at the expense of present and future generations.

There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?

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

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.

We have less civil liberties than we had on 9/ 1 1 in some significant ways. But we are also, I believe, less safe as a result in many instances of the sacrifice in human rights, civil liberties, and the rule of law that (the Bush) administration has adopted.

I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

Liberty consists in wholesome restraint

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

We are a new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.

Awareness of death is the very bedrock of the entire path. Until you have developed this awareness, all other practices are obstructed.

Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

We've got to get back to a sense of an American identity, and that identity is not nationality or religion or ethnicity. It is a particular idea, and that idea is that you should live in liberty and you should be able to pursue happiness.

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.

Those which defend liberty, equality and fraternity, seem to us superior to those which accept tyranny, the subservience of women, social and ethnic hatred.

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