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By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.

Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.

Call to mind the sentiments which nature has engraved on the heart of every citizen, and which take a new force when they are solemnly recognised by all:-For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it; and to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it.

Can liberty be destroyed by the truth?

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him.

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup.

Chaos is lawless behavior governed entirely by law.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

Christians should be among those who speak loudest in defense of civil liberties and the protection of the weak.

Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant ---Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

Christ liveth in me. And how great the difference...instead of bondage, liberty; instead of failure, quiet victories within; instead of fear and weakness, a restful sense of sufficiency in Another.

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip.

Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.

Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

Coincident with the right of individual property under the provisions of our Government is the right of individual property. . . . When once the right of the individual to liberty and equality is admitted, there is no escape from the conclusion that he alone is entitled to the rewards of his own industry. Any other conclusion would necessarily imply either privilege or servitude.

Cognitive liberty begins at home, behind your eyes and between your ears. The first act of liberation is to step forward, and be counted as one of us.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.

Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

Communism:  Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. First, let's make sure we understand what government spending is. Since government has no resources of its own, and since there's no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person's property to give it to another to whom it does not belong - in effect, legalized theft.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.