Liberty Quotes - Page 71

...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

This question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it: (1) The few plunder the many. (2) Everybody plunders everybody. (3) Nobody plunders anybody.

We are going to tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

The very forces that liberty has set free work against the dangerous consequences of liberty.

Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second, we declare it is heretical, infidelic and contrary to the Bible. Third, we say it is really a matter of no importance either one way or the other. Fourth, we aver that we have always upheld it and believed it.

The law of England is a law of liberty .

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.