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Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.
It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
Our long-term security depends on our deep faith in liberty. And we'll continue to promote freedom around the world.
We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.
Travel the world, learn other languages, demand liberty, despise violence, read books, and keep a dictionary nearby.
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
The Church must actualize, be present in the public debate, in our struggle for a true concept of liberty and peace.
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?
I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.
Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.
I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.
One of the least impressive liberties is the liberty to starve. This particular liberty is freely accorded to authors.
No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.
Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture, our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets.
What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.
I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
To Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase... Rather, it's displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.
Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
many men have too much Free-will, and take to themselves too free liberty now a days to advance and maintain free will.
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
Government failure is always used as an excuse for government expansion. Government thrives on crisis and incompetence.
Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive.