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What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
The Unites States of America continues to represent life, liberty, and freedom. We believe in hard work and capitalism.
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...
The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.
Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!
I took the liberty in Snowboarding to Nirvana to do a type of parody of what I suppose you would call "New Age fiction."
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.
To think, I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.
When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?
Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.
Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
Can you think of a single area of government in which George Bush hasn't already made things worse than Bill Clinton did?
It is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason.
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
The people's liberties strengthen the king's prerogative, and the king's prerogative is to defend the people's liberties.
In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.
The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.
There is no talent so ardently supported, nor generously rewarded, as the ability to convince parasites they are victims.
Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.
Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least.
The media assume that if your life or liberty is on the line and you have a lot of money, you automatically get the best.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.
The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead, government is a protector of rights.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.
I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.