Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.

Unless virtue guide us our choice must be wrong.

Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.

Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

We are gonna to have to choose as a nation between the homosexual agenda and freedom because the two cannot coexist. Every advance of the homosexual agenda, comes at the expense of liberty, particularly religious liberty.

We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is the safeguard of our property and our liberty and our property under the Constitution.

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

We began a contest for liberty ill provided with the means for the war, relying on our patriotism to supply the deficiency. We expected to encounter many wants and distressed we must bear the present evils and fortitude

We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

We can only protect liberty by making it relevant to the modern world.

We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

We do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

We had to fight the enemy without in the Falklands. We always have to be aware of the enemy within, which is much more difficult to fight and more dangerous to liberty.

We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely nothing is now beyond the scope of State power.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty...

We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

... we have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation.... On the other hand ... by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

We [Americans] continue to be harangued by politicians about how Americans must fight this war because we're being attacked because we have freedoms and liberties and women in the workplace and a whole list of ephemera that have nothing to do with this war at all.