Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she represents, but no one would dream of asking her opinion.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. These duties are, internally, love and adoration: externally, devotion and obedience; therefore provision should be made for maintaining divine worship as well as education. But each one has a right to entire liberty as to religious opinions, for religion is the relation between God and man; therefore it is not within the reach of human authority.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

Religious liberty should mean religious liberty for everyone, employees as well.

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your liberty is nothing but a mange eating away at you, it is nothing but an exile.

Remember, when you hear them beginning to say "freedom" look carefully-. see who it is they want you to butcher.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

Rights are not the language of democracy. Compromise is what democracy is about. Rights are the language of freedom, and are absolute because their role is to protect our liberty. By using the absolute power of freedom to accomplish reforms of democracy, we have undermined democracy and diminished our freedom.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

Rulers do not like to admit that their power is restricted by any laws other than those of physics and biology. They never ascribe their failures and frustrations to the violation of economic law.

Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.

Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.

Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded of any three out of the four.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Senate Bill 1062 does not address a specific or present concern related to religious liberty in Arizona. I have not heard one example in Arizona where a business owner’s religious liberty has been violated. The bill was broadly worded - and could result in unintended and negative consequences. After weighing all the arguments I have vetoed Senate Bill 1062 moments ago.

Shall we not rejoice then and revel in the glorious liberty of extract, and quote to the thousandth line? Shall we not have pages like the Pyramids?

Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are its very lifeblood. For reason and scientific method can flourish only in an atmosphere of civil liberties.

Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.