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The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.
If standing for liberty and the Constitution makes you a Wacko Bird, then count me a proud Wacko Bird.
The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.
We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.
I read these polls because civil-liberties organizations tell me I need to be aware of public opinion.
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
The erosion of personal freedom and liberty as a result of federal policy and legislation is alarming.
Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.
One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Persecution on racial and religious grounds has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty.
We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
The cry of the soul is for freedom. It longs for liberty, from the date of its first conscious moments.
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.
The rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
We must remind ourselves that an assault on any one of our liberties and freedoms is an assault on all.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.
Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please, for so fools have.
Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.
For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that.
The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?
Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.
Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.
The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.
I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.
However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.