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A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes, that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.
I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much.
Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.
I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.
Let us remind ourselves again that the Second Amendment of the US Constitution should be referred to as the Statute of Liberty.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
To achieve progress and development it is necessary to bring about co-ordination between liberty and security through Devotion.
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing the very thing that caused the evil in the first place: legal plunder.
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.
American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.
Economy is the parent of integrity, of liberty, and of ease, and the beauteous sister of temperance, of cheerfulness and health.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
The 'private sector' of the economy is, in fact, the voluntary sector; and the 'public sector' is, in fact, the coercive sector.
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.
Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
Peace will never be entirely secure until men everywhere have learned to conquer poverty without sacrificing liberty or security.
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.
Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to any student group that advances causes contrary to its mission.
In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.
Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.