Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

My main object in making a motion picture is entertainment. If at the same time I can strike a blow for liberty, then I'll stick one in.

My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

My work is my life, and my life is my work. I invented this assault rifle to defend my country. Today, I am proud that it has become for many synonymous with liberty.

NAFTA and GATT have about as much to do with free trade as the Patriot Act has to do with liberty.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton away from some ultranationalists and toward those interested in liberty and reform. He pressed Clinton to replace his ambassador in Kiev and concentrate future U.S. economic aid on Ukraine, where it would matter most.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

No, liberty is not made for us: we are too ignorant, too vain, too presumptious, too cowardly, too vile, too corrupt, too attached to rest and to pleasure, too much slaves to fortune to ever know the true price of liberty. We boast of being free! To show how much we have become slaves, it is enough just to cast a glance on the capital and examine the morals of its inhabitants.

No free government can stand without virtue in the people, and a lofty spirit of partiotism.

No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.

No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?

No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.

No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.

No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted which did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny, inflexibility, reaction, and decline.

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Nothing puts peace in its proper perspective better than the loss of personal liberty first.

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.