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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

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.

Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very precise rules, the laws have thought it less mischievous to give greater scope to its freedom than to the restraint of it.

Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.