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The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.

The election of a man committed to the cause of freedom and the renewal of America's strength has given encouragement to all those who love liberty.

The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

The essence of constitutionalism in a democracy is not merely to shape and condition the nature of majorities, but also to stipulate that certain things are impermissible, no matter how large and fervent a majority might want them.

The era of big government is over.

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

The first thing I have at heart is American liberty; the second thing is American union.

The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations.

The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.

The flag is a flag of liberty of opinion as well as of political liberty.

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace.

The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.

The forests have taught man liberty.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.

The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

The Freedom Bell in Berlin is, like the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, a symbol which reminds us that freedom does not come about of itself. It must be struggled for and then defended anew every day of our lives.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

The government should always be the one defending civil liberties.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.