Liberty Quotes - Page 60

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from me: that of deciding who I wanted to be.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and our individual liberties are sacrificed for the benefit of the Fatherland.

Once upon a time, government budgets were balanced, our money was sound, the streets were safe, and taxes imposed by all levels of government took less than 10% of our income.

Life without Liberty is far worse than death.

You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious.

When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

Liberty for all; chains for none.

Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.