Liberty Quotes - Page 8

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

The revolution is the war of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty against its enemies. The constitution is the rule of liberty when victorious and peaceable.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

Beware the hobby that eats.

We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

Demanding domestic security in times of war invites carelessness in preserving civil liberties and the right of privacy. Frequently the people are only too anxious for their freedoms to be sacrificed on the altar of authoritarianism thought to be necessary to remain safe and secure.

Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

There's never been a good government.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

The control of the production of wealth is the control of human life itself.