Liberty Quotes - Page 78

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the organized combination of the individual's right to self-defense; if law were the obstacle, the check, the punisher of all oppression and plunder - is it likely that we citizens would then argue much about the extent of the franchise?

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Freedom is the supreme good; freedom from self imposed limitation.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.

The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

I have one abiding religion-human liberty.

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.