Liberty Quotes - Page 69

I have accordingly considered it, and now appear not only in obedience to your order, but likewise in behalf of the inhabitants of this town, who have presented another petition, and out of regard to the liberties of the subject.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries.

I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

Historically, much of the motivation for public schooling has been to stifle variety and institute social control.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

We must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing.