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Time is the only thing you can't buy.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.

To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-ridden, regulated, penned up, indoctrinated, preached at, checked, appraised, seized, censured, commanded, by beings who have neither title, nor knowledge, nor virtue. To be governed is to have every operation, every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, refused, authorized, indorsed, admonished, prevented, reformed, redressed, corrected.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.

To change masters is not to be free.

To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

Today's citizen is obliged to find his freedom only in the narrow ruts pre-approved by his bureaucratic overlords. "Risk-free liberty" is the ideal of the Welfare State: citizens are permitted only liberties which have been declawed, defanged, neutered, certified and wrapped in benevolent restrictions.

Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

To invent something you have to be removed from the world. In order to have liberty to imagine something better, you need to step outside for a while.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, the other of granting it.

To me this question whether liberty is a good or a bad thing appears as irrational as the question whether fire is a good or a bad thing. It is both good and bad according to time, place, and circumstance, and a complete answer to the question, In what cases is liberty good and in what cases is it bad? would involve not merely a universal history of mankind, but a complete solution of the problems which such a history would offer.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

To the American people I say, awaken to what is happening. It is the duty of each citizen to be vigilant, to protect liberty, to speak out, left and right and disagree lest be trampled underfoot by misguided zealotry and extreme partisanship.

To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

TO the States or any one of them, or any city of the States, Resist much, obey little, Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved, Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth, ever after-ward resumes its liberty.

To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.

Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Trade liberty for safety or money and you'll end up with neither. Liberty, like a grain of salt, easily dissolves. The power of questioning - not simply believing - has no friends. Yet liberty depends on it.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

True freedom is not the liberty to do anything we please, but the liberty to do what we ought; and it is genuine liberty because doing what we ought now pleases us

True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something.