Liberty Quotes - Page 102

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight

Liberty's chief foe is theology.

One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.

I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked some of the things that it availed me of in terms of emotion and tonal stuff. I came to find it appealing.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy.

As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

While green-screen work, find a way to stay true to whatever it is that it takes to act a scene out, and make sure that you use your imagination as best as you possibly can, still stay loose, and still allow yourself the liberty of doing what you need to do as an actor, and then work within the confines of what is actually possible.

For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.

A nation has character only when it is free.

Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all of which are equally prohibited in the freest governments, if they are wise and well-regulated ones.

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.

There are things about classic liberalism that obviously I'm drawn to and I bet all of you are as well. Those are things like liberty, freedom, the Bill of Rights. But the reason that I reject the label is that I grew up cutting my teeth against the liberals.

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice. Within a nation, this public authority will naturally be the state; in relations between nations, if the present anarchy is to cease, it will have to be some international parliament.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.