Liberty Quotes - Page 86

Still less, let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

This ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe. at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.

From the dissensions among Sects themselves arise necessarily a right of choosing and necessity of deliberating to which we will conform. But if we choose for ourselves, we must allow others to choose also, and so reciprocally, this establishes religious liberty.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

Light and liberty go together.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.

I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties; the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

If the world knew how to use freedom without abusing it, tyranny would not exist.

My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.