Liberty Quotes - Page 7

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.

Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty.

We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.

We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

You don't need a treaty to have free trade.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

It is certainly true that a popular government cannot flourish without virtue in the people.

Humanity has gained its suit; Liberty will nevermore be without an asylum.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

I tell ye true, liberty is the best of all things; never live beneath the noose of a servile halter.

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.