Liberty Quotes - Page 39

Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.

Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.

I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, the real liberty one does not find as a member of society.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Truth and news are not the same thing.

May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise in the whole Earth, until the last shock of time shall bury the empires of the whole world in one common undistinguished ruin!

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

May the Lord level in the dust those who would deprive the people of their liberty.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.