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Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
Freedom is such a precious commodity. Yet sometimes the freest of people devalue it the most.
The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C.
The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
I think there was a freedom in the 1920s and 1930s: a certain liberty and evolution of women.
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.
It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.
For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.
The present struggle seems less about abolishing big government than about who gets to use it.
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.
It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice.
There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them.
If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.
Liberty is the freedom of individual to express, without external hindrances, his personality.
Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
The fundamental axiom, then, for the study of man is the existence of individual consciousness
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.
Resistance in Palestine will continue until the final liberation of all the Palestinian lands.
Those who lack the capacity to achieve much in an atmosphere of freedom will clamor for power.
If you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties?
When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
Carelessness about our security is dangerous, carelessness about our freedom is also dangerous.
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?
American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.
Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.
We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare.
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.