Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant.

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

When politics and home life have become one and the same thing, [...] then,[...] it is evident that we will be in a state of total liberty or anarchy.

When politicians say "I'm in politics," it may or may not be possible to trust them, but when they say, "I'm in public service," you know you should flee.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

When somebody meets me in the street, they say, 'Hello, how you doing?' And I say the same back. It's just two minutes of your time and it's alright. I don't like people taking liberties when I'm with my family, but mostly people are really polite and that's lovely.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

...When the government goes into the business of destroying trust, it goes into the business of destroying itself.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.

When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.

When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.

When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

When we call a capitalist society a consumers democracy we mean that the power to dispose of the means of production, which belongs to the entrepreneurs and capitalists, can only be acquired by means of the consumers ballot, held daily in the marketplace.

When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.

When we talk about defending Muslims, defending women, we're automatically by default excluding someone, but when we talk about defending liberty, when we talk about defending the freedoms that are enshrined within our founding documents, that is inclusive of every American. That's a message the American left needs to learn as we move forward.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men ... They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great Mediator of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me." -Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones

Wherefore, though the Christian, as a Christian, is the only man at liberty, as called thereunto of God; yet his liberty is limited to things that are good: he is not licensed thereby to indulge the flesh.

Where's Barack Obama when Christmas references are being erased from civic calendars? Is he crying out in defense of religious liberty and our First Amendment? Nope. He's as silent as a church mouse. And animosity toward religion continues to grow.

Where licentiousness begins, liberty ends.

Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

Where liberty dies, evil grows.

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.