On Liberty Quotes
I am thankful for our democracy, liberty, and prosperity, and that so many Americans have dedicated their lives to improving our country and our world.
Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.
Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.
Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.
I stand as I always have with the Cuban people who love, cherish and celebrate liberty. Hard-working, helpful people who open their hearts and homes to all, whether in Cuba or in exile.
The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with one's own without interference by the king or any other man.
Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.
It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.
Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.
Those who give up liberty for the sake of security, deserve neither liberty nor security.
Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.
The idea that I hear from the right wing in the last few decades, is that any sort of sacrifice is an affront to my liberty as an American to be a pig the way I want to.
Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.
For far too long the American public and business sector have kept their silence as civil liberties have been whittled away by statutory and regulatory measures.
Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.
Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
