Top 1200 Personal Liberty Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction with the general interest. Good for society, our laws are very bad for the individuals whereof it is composed; for, if they one time protect the individual, they hinder, trouble, fetter him for three quarters of his life.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Discipline must come through liberty.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.

My liberty depends on you being free, too.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Yeah, I was going to have no features on 'Bulletproof.' But I ended up putting Gucci Mane on it. That's just my partner. He's just one of my personal friends. It ain't no different for him from my homeboys in Memphis. I just have a real personal relationship. I met Gucci Mane through my partner Drumma Boy, the producer.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Liberty is one of the imagination's most precious possessions.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.

Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras. . . . As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Security without liberty is called prison.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

Countries are not cultivated in proportion to their fertility, but to their liberty.

The problem with this world is that there isn't enough liberty and freedom.

The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

Personal power is the reflection of a person of knowledge. A person of knowledge, an enlightened person, a person even close to enlightenment, has a great deal of personal power.

I cut my teeth on religious liberty issues.

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.