222 quotes found
“Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress ofcorpses.”
“Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty”
“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”
“Insights are everything. They play central parts in the actualization of destiny. A dangerous insights becomes a colossal executioner. Latching your fate with noble thoughts spares you a life of se...”
“Liberty exists as the moral fiber within the political tapestry of man.”
“Our legal system does not grant adults a right to liberty, because they already possess that right; it only revokes the right to liberty (for certain offenses) or restores it (if the deprivation di...”
“Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.”
“How will the remaining portion of the community like to have the amusements that shall be permitted to them regulated by the religious and moral sentiments of the stricter Calvinists and Methodists...”
“Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the...”
“[I]t must be owned, that liberty is the perfection of civil society; but still authority must be acknowledged essential to its very existence: and in those contests, which so often take place betwe...”
“Be it remembered, that liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we have not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us at the expense of th...”
“Don't oppress, don't accept to be oppressed and you will live free.”
“The idea [passing the 17th amendment] benefited from a unique political and cultural atmosphere that consumed a nation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries-a progressive populism promoting...”
“Too many of us view liberty as something that just is, and too few see it as something that is only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant payin...”
“The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.”
“The four L's: Love Light Life Liberty!!”
“Liberty! -- Electric word!”
“There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.”
“What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.”
“Mr. President; give me back my country. Allow people to have their humanity. If you do not do this, history will never absolve you!”
