Liberty Quotes - Page 40

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

The Root of All Rebellion: It is because we are not near enough to Thee to partake of thy liberty that we want a liberty of our own different from thine.

If we have learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot Federalize Virtue.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

The law commit legal plunder by violating liberty and property.

The plans differ; the planners are all alike.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.