Best 3053 quotes in «liberty quotes» category

I'm a huge Marvel fan and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking I think, if anything, that it dignifies the comics and it says, "Yeah. This is a strong enough, robust enough source. We can bend it, it's elastic. It's bouncy.

I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.

I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many.

I'm a Libertarian. I'm liberty, justice for all, liberty for all.

I'm not sure how far Derrida's later 'theological' interests are really rooted in post-structuralism or whether they don't rather reflect a kind of Kantian-Marxist trajectory - with a French twist on the centrality of liberty, equality and fraternity (cf. Politics of Friendship). Not to mention the role of Levinas and, behind Levinas, Judaism's twinning of eschatology and the call for justice.

I'm not at liberty to discuss the governments knowledge of extraterrestrial UFO's at this time. I am still personally being briefed on the subject!

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

I'm not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty.

... imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not, as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born; that they are not superior to the citizen; that every one of them was once the act of a single man; every law and usage was a man's expedient to meet a particular case; that they all are imitable, all alterable; we may make as good; we may make better.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.

Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom.

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Individuality is freedom lived.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty.

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of speech, whether it is freedom of the press, whether it is freedom of association, all of the rights that are enshrined in the First Amendment are threatened by the active, aggressive homosexual lobby and the homosexual agenda.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

In keeping Americans ill-educated, ill-informed and constitutionally ignorant, the education establishment has been the politician's major and most faithful partner. It is in this sense that American education can be deemed a success.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.