Liberty Quotes - Page 79

That all persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the one Almighty and eternal God, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the world; and that hold themselves obliged in conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil society, shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion, or practice, in manners of faith and worship, nor shall they be compelled, at any time, to frequent or maintain any religious worship, place or ministry whatever.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound ... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil.

The laws by which the Divine Ruler of the universe has decreed an indissoluble connection between public happiness and private virtue, whatever apparent exceptions may delude our short-sighted judgments, never fail to vindicate their supremacy and immutability.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Minimum-wage laws are one of the most powerful tools in the arsenal of racists.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.

Liberty trains for liberty.

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.

The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.

When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.

I am entirely persuaded that the agitations of the public mind advance its powers, and that at every vibration between the points of liberty and despotism, something will be gained for the former. As men become better informed, their rulers must respect them the more.

A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

Do you know what the primary infrastructure of the United States actually is, ladies and gentlemen? It's freedom - freedom and liberty - and that infrastructure certainly does need some rebuilding.

The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.

Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

If you care about your personal liberty, you'll be cautious when you feel comfortable, blame all the illegal immigrants for everything. What you need to do is attack their benefits: no free education, no free subsidies, no citizenship, no birth-right citizenship.

Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.