Liberty Quotes - Page 72

Anarchists are extreme libertarian socialists , "libertarian" meaning the demand for freedom from prohibition, and "socialist" meaning the demand for social equality . ...Complete freedom implies equality, since if there are rich and poor, the poor cannot be permitted to take liberties with riches. Complete equality implies freedom, since those who suffer restrictions cannot be the equals of those who impose them.

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

The illegal drug trade is the financial engine that fuels many terrorist organizations around the world, including Osama bin Laden.

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

True liberty in individuals consists in the enjoying of every right that will contribute to one's peace and happiness, so long as the exercise of such a privilege does not interfere with the same privilege in others.

To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and, further, to indict those who do not freely join with us in happily arrogating those principles.

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

According to the Tax Foundation, taxes now consume more than 38% of the average family's budget. That is more than is spent on food, clothing, housing, and transportation combined. Compare this to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor one-third of their output - and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us?

Does America really need 70 percent of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million lawsuits coursing through our system annually?

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...

At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere.

Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.