Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. These duties are, internally, love and adoration: externally, devotion and obedience; therefore provision should be made for maintaining divine worship as well as education. But each one has a right to entire liberty as to religious opinions, for religion is the relation between God and man; therefore it is not within the reach of human authority.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one example in Arizona where a business owner’s religious liberty has been violated. The bill was broadly worded - and could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all the arguments I have vetoed Senate Bill 1062 moments ago.

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use are means to the individual's liberation. We do not perceive how a man may be armed and at the same time bereft of his freedom.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

Socialism crushes human rights, builds the state, impinges on the liberty of conscience, and breeds social, cultural, and economic degeneration.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

So goes America in terms of freedom, so goes the rest of the world. And so that document [Declaration of Independence] I would argue is the foundational document for freedom not just for America but for freedom around the world.