Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

[Jehovah is] certainly the most jealous, the most vain, the most ferocious, the most unjust, the most bloodthirsty, the most despotic, and the most hostile to human dignity and liberty.

Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).

Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

Let it not be said that no one cared, that no one objected once it’s realized that our liberties and wealth are in jeopardy.

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!

Let there be light! Said Liberty , And like sunrise from the sea, Athens arose!

Let the people decide through the marketplace mechanism what they wish to see and hear. Why is there this national obsession to tamper with this box of transistors and tubes when we don't do the same for Time magazine?

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

Let the pulpit resound with the doctrines and sentiments of religious liberty... Let us hear the dignity of his [man's] nature, and the noble rank he holds among the works of God... Let it be known, that British liberties are not the grants of princes or parliaments.

Let these truths be indelibly impressed on our minds — that we cannot be happy, without being FREE — that we cannot be free, without being secure in our property— that we cannot be secure in our property, if, without our consent, others may, as by right, take it away — that taxes imposed on us by parliament, do thus take it away.

Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more be heard in the land wasting nor destruction in her borders; but let us behold it now, nigh at the door lending faith and confidence to our hopes, assuring us that even we ourselves shall be instrumental in proclaiming liberty to the captive.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.

Liberty and freedom were the primary reason that people wanted to come here. They wanted to escape bondage, slavery, tyranny, poverty, whatever, where they lived. It was America that promised a much better life.

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Liberty and choice are the essential components that constitute human dignity.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.

Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue.

Liberalism, communism, socialism are about denying individual liberty and creating a collective with a top down command-and-control government and economy. Conservatives are individuals and not activists at all, and so there is no such strategy to bend, shape, and form a country.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.