Liberty Quotes - Page 50

We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power and that the line which divides these extremes should be so inaccurately defined by experience.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

There is no virtue in denying the law of gravity, and there should be no virtue in denying the limitations of government. ... The more we glorify government, the more liberties we will lose.

If the Czar will not accord our people these desired liberties, then a revolution will bring about a republic which will assure us our rights.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as (a) they know what they are doing, (b) they consent to it, and (c) no one - at least no one other than the participants - is harmed by it.

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

It's wrong for someone to confiscate your money, give it to someone else, and call that "compassion."

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will.

If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.