Liberty Quotes - Page 49

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Time is the only thing you can't buy.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempt to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

... the American Colonists under King George III had it pretty good compared to us. They would wonder why we haven't taken up arms and seceded yet.

A free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.

Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without it, the better.

We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will

I love liberty, I hate equality.

Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.

Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.