Liberty Quotes - Page 73

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing demographic.

Moderation in the defense of liberty is no virtue.

For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, to consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.

[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Every time one of us starts talking about more effective immigration controls, somebody else throws up the Statue of Liberty, how we're a nation of immigrants and all of that. The debate takes on tinges of racism, emotion.