Liberty Quotes - Page 93

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious act; for every body is under obligation to go to the assistance of one who is assailed by assassins, robbers, ravishers, kidnappers, or ruffians of any kind.

History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Aggressors cannot wage total war without introducing Socialism.

It is impossible to grasp the meaning of the idea of sound money if one does not realize that it was devised as an instrument for the protection of civil liberties against despotic inroads on the part of governments.

As soon as the economic freedom which the market economy grants to its members is removed, all political liberties and bills of rights become humbug.

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

Liberty must not be abused.

Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.

Montesquieu well knew, and justly admired, the happy constitution of this country [Great Britain], where fixed and known laws equally restrain monarchy from tyranny and liberty from licentiousness.

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

Of all the things he wants," Liberty said, "money's the easiest to get.

What are you going to call the place?" "I haven't decided yet. Carrington wants to call it Clippety-Do-Da or Hairway to Heaven . . . but I told her we have to be a little bit classier." "Julius Scissors," I suggested. "Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow," Jack joined in. Liberty covered her ears. "I'll go out of business in the first week.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.