Liberty Quotes - Page 61

I can be free only to the extent that others are forbidden to profit from their physical, economic, or other superiority to the detriment of my liberty.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant.

A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

I would consider all of the legislation which I have supported meaningless if I were to sit idly by, silent, during a period which may go down in history as an era when we permitted the curtailment of our liberties.

Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.

The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.

Anarchism is really a synonym for socialism. The anarchist is primarily a socialist whose aim is to abolish the exploitation of man by man. Anarchism is only one of the streams of socialist thought, that stream whose main components are concern for liberty and haste to abolish the State.

The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.

Emergency does not increase granted power or remove or diminish the restrictions imposed upon power granted or reserved. The Constitution was adopted in a period of grave emergency. Its grants of power to the federal government and its limitations of the power of the States were determined in the light of emergency, and they are not altered by emergency.

It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts.

There can be no liberty without the law

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

Terrorists can only take my life. Only my government can take my freedom.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.