Liberty Quotes - Page 81

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.

During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

The view... from my apartment... was the World Trade Center... and now it's gone, they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what? You know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that!

The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a nation honored, depend upon its adherence to the principles of truth and righteousness.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

The American patriots of today continue the tradition of the long line of patriots before them, by helping to promote liberty and freedom around the world.

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

It is commonly believed that the rights of the American people come from the Constitution. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.

One may take many liberties with God which one cannot take with men.

The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.