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The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday lives on the basic assumption of safety.
Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.
No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
Many of America's and New York's sons and daughters are around the world fighting for the freedoms that the Statue of Liberty stands for.
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.
Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.
The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.
Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.
A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept.
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.
The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.
The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.
We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
I would explain to my children very simply that the defense of liberty is a cause that exacts a very high price in the history of humankind.
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty.
If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.
When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.
Yes, we [USA] can be safe and secure, if we stay on the offense against the terrorists and if we spread freedom and liberty around the world.
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.