Liberty Quotes - Page 57

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

If they are really persuaded that the army is annually established by me, that I have the sole disposal of posts and honours, that I employ this power in the destruction of liberty and the diminution of commerce, let me awaken them from their delusion.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.

It was the separation of powers upon which the framers placed their hopes for the preservation of the people's liberties. Despite this heritage, the congress has been in too many cases more than willing to walk away from its constitutional powers.

Liberty is never unalienable, it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.

Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?

Liberty is slow fruit. It is never cheap; it is made difficult because freedom is the accomplishment and perfectness of man.