222 quotes found
“We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he wou...”
“Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.”
“The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”
“Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.”
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
“True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.”
“I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.”
“For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.”
“I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I h...”
“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”
“Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.”
“It has been lately urged in a very respectable quarter that it is the mission of this country to spread civil and religious liberty all over the globe, and especially over this continent - even by ...”
“The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is t...”
“All government, of course, is against liberty.”
“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”
“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your...”
“There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.”
“Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.”
