Liberty Quotes - Page 103

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.

Governments having failed the people, the people are entirely justified in assuming for themselves an essential role in government. Where a government takes proper measures to protect the people under its care, such a proceeding might have been thought both unnecessary and unjustifiable: But here it is quite the Reverse.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Our society is not perfect and this will come as no surprise to many of you. But liberty, you see, that precious child of our liberal democracy only two hundred years old, has one notable side effect. When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted.

Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf.

A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty.

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men.

I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

The commitment to civil liberty is going to be reasserted strongly. But the concept of liberty is under attack, and our definition of insecurity, security and threats will change fundamentally. The depth of the attack on liberty will be felt painfully.

It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.