Liberty Quotes - Page 83

The Supreme Court is the last refuge in America for our rights and liberties.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

If liberty of speech is to be untrammeled from the grosser forms of constraint, the uniformity of opinion will be secured by a moral terrorism to which the respectability of society will give its thorough approval.

O money, money, how blindly thou hast been worshipped, and how stupidly abused! Thou are health and liberty and strength, and he that has thee may rattle his pockets at the foul fiend!

You don't really know what to believe until the Government denies it.

Laws without morals are in vain.

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny. All the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms, and so forth to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff.

Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved.