222 quotes found
“Let us applaud the howls of the ignorant extremists as we stand on a knife-edge, not glad, but in acknowledgement of the bad, sad, mad gifts that the regime continue to offer us.”
“In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.”
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means ...”
“It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference to societies where everyone was not free - where, in fact,...”
“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.”
“I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves lib...”
“Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.”
“Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it.”
“I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not f...”
“No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.”
“But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything ...”
“LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
“There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the existing chief power. Oppositions which do not express genuine soci...”
“Jo carried her love of liberty and hate of conventionalities to such and unlimited extent that she naturally found herself worsted in an argument.”
“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
“Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.”
“Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.”
“In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.”
“I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist ...”
“Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.”
