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Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

Under true peer-review...a panel of reviewers must accept a study before it can be published in a scientific journal. If the reviewers have objections the author must answer them or change the article to take reviewers' objections into account. Under the IPCC review process, the authors are at liberty to ignore criticisms.

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

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.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

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 new nation conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. That's what makes us Americans. When we sign onto that belief, we sign onto the core American identity, and that's very deep in us.

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

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, 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 exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

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

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

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

We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with thespirit of the times. The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

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 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 believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

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

Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep.

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to reclaim our country, to defend liberty and to restore the Constitution.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.