Famous Quotes - Tags - Liberty
- A counterfeiting law-factory, standing half in a slave land and half in a free! What kind of laws... More
- A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. More
- A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world,... More
- A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need... More
- A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though... More
- Again we have here two distinctions that are no distinctions, but made to seem so by terms... More
- Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is... More
- America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it... More
- Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. More
- An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a... More
- And ghosts then keep their distance; and I know some liberty. More
- And if I pray, the only prayer
That moves my lips for me
Is—‘Leave the heart that now... More
- And what are we coming to in our Middlesex towns? A bald, staring town-house, or meeting-house,... More
- Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep... More
- Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating... More
- Boys forget what their country means by just reading “the land of the free” in history books.... More
- But of all the views of this law [universal education] none is more important, none more... More
- Come, and trip it as ye go
On the light fantastic toe,
And in thy right hand lead with... More
- Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. More
- Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people. More
- Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the... More
- Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a... More
- Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind!
Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, More
- Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of... More
- Fair Liberty was all his cry;
For her he stood prepared to die;
For her he boldly stood... More
- Firm, united, let us be,
Rallying round our Liberty;
As a band of brothers... More
- For why should my liberty be subject to the judgment of someone else’s conscience? More
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and... More
- He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old Alma Mater as she is. He was not fed on the... More
- He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at... More
- How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call... More
- I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum... More
- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. More
- I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. More
- I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded... More
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending... More
- If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little... More
- If there is ANY THING which it is the duty of the WHOLE PEOPLE to never entrust to any hands but... More
- Is that the Craig Jurgesen that Teddy Roosevelt gave you?... And you used it at San Juan Hill... More
- Is this what all these soldiers, all this training, have been for these seventy-nine years past?... More
- It has come to this, that the friends of liberty, the friends of the slave, have shuddered when... More
- It is not an era of repose. We have used up all our inherited freedom. If we would save our... More
- It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves... More
- It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy.... More
- It is true that liberty is precious—so precious that it must be rationed. More
- It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same... More
- It’s babe feminism—we’re young, we’re fun, we do what we want in bed—and it has a... More
- Let him have the marble monument, along with the well-assured and more enduring one in the hearts... More
- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the... More
- Liberty is a blessing so inestimable, that, wherever there appears any probability of recovering... More
- Liberty is the air that we Americans breathe. Our Government is based on the belief that a people... More
- Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like. More
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. More
- Liberty requires opportunity to make a living—a living decent according to the standard of the... More
- Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of... More
- Life of Ages, richly poured,
Love of God unspent and free,
Flowing in the Prophet’s... More
- Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of... More
- Lux my fair falcon, and your fellows all,
How well pleasant it were your liberty!
Ye not... More
- Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition... More
- Municipal laws are a supply to the wisdom of each individual; and, at the same time, by... More
- My country, ‘tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my... More
- No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. More
- O liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! More
- O star of morning and of liberty! More
- Old England liberty—to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. More
- Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it;... More
- Our fathers’ God! to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be... More
- Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. More
- Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the... More
- Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a... More
- Remember, Orestes: you were part of my herd, you grazed in the fields along with my sheep. Your... More
- Science ... has won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious... More
- Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
Have liberty not as the air within a... More
- The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave. More
- The cherry orchard is now mine!... I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were... More
- The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if... More
- The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. More
- The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what... More
- The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but... More
- The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return... More
- The higher your station, the less your liberty. More
- The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a... More
- The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any... More
- The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. More
- The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of... More
- The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman... More
- The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in... More
- The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned;... More
- The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. More
- The twelve Cells for Incorrigibles ... are also carved out of the solid rock hill. On the walls... More
- The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the... More
- The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty. More
- Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is... More
- There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can... More
- There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. More
- this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful
and terrible thing, needful to man as... More
- Three years ago, also, just a week after the authorities of Boston assembled to carry back a... More
- To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his... More
- To place liberty in an indifferency, antecedent to the thought and judgment of the understanding,... More
- Today democracy, liberty, and equality are words to fool the people. No nation can progress with... More
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