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We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.
If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Now that Bin Laden dead, can we get our civil liberties back? That George Bush stole with the Patriot Act?
My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.
As the growing emphasis on feelings crowds out reason, facts will play a smaller role in public discourse.
A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property - an unpaid tax bill.
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
The greatest inheritance that a man hath is the liberty of his person, for all others are accessory to it.
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.
The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.
We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.
We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.
Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
It ain't so much what a man doesn't know that causes him so many problems, but what he knows that ain't so.
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out.
Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!
I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.
When the people fear a government, they're a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal.
For liberty to expand, government must shrink. For the economy to grow, government must get out of the way.
The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.
We need to give them [the Justice Department] as much power as we can without eroding fundamental liberties.
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea.
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
The same government that brought you urban renewal is likely to make an even worse mess of suburban renewal.
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.