Liberty Quotes - Page 21

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty.

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

One's right to life, liberty, and property depends on the outcome of no election.

Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.

Believing means liberating the indestructible element in oneself, or, more accurately, liberating oneself, or, more accurately, being indestructible, or, more accurately, being.

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature.

Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control. Where ever the cause of liberty is making its way, one of its highest accomplishments is the guarantee of the freedom of the press.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics.

As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.

Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should.

The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.