Liberty Quotes - Page 54

It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship.

I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Although man is already ninety per cent water, the Prohibitionists are not yet satisfied.

Liberty is not just an idea, an abstract principle. It is power, effective power to do specific things. There is no such thing as liberty in general; liberty, so to speak, at large.

Liberty is the solution of all social and economic questions.

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

Without liberty I have nothing left to use except my body.

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

The crying need today is not for more laws, but for fewer. The world must be saved from its saviors. If the friends of liberty and law could have only one slogan it should be: Stop the remedies!

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

History teaches us that there have been but few infringements of personal liberty by the state which have not been justified, as they are here, in the name of righteousness and the public good, and few which have not been directed, as they are now, at politically helpless minorities.

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.