222 quotes found
“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?”
“'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.”
“It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.”
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are in...”
“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.”
“Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.”
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
“The more liberty you give away the more you will have.”
“Liberty is worth paying for.”
“Now, one of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house.”
“For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.”
“By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.”
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.”
“Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.”
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
“If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.”
“Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the...”
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in su...”
“Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
“To be truly free it takes more determination courage introspection and restraint than to be in shackles.”
