Top 1200 Statue Of Liberty Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

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

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

Discipline must come through liberty.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

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

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.

Sham liberty will be proclaimed everywhere.

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.

If you find your truth you must follow it. You could find it in a paper bag, or in a statue, or in a slaughterhouse; you might find it dangling somewhere. People might say, What the heck are you doing? but its ok if they dont understand. And if you follow it, stay true to it, and respect it, you could be in store for the greatest journey you could ever imagine.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

Communism: Liberation of the people from the burdens of liberty

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

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

Our liberty depends on freedom of the press.

I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.

I'm a principle liberty, rule-of-law Conservative.

Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.

Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.

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

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

Donald Trump was in a tuxedo, standing next to his award: a statue of a palm tree, as tall as a toddler. It was 2010, and Trump was being honored by a charity - the Palm Beach Police Foundation - for his 'selfless support' of its cause. His support did not include any of his own money.

Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.

Liberty and equality--lovely and sacred words!

Memory, like liberty, is a fragile thing.

I'm living the life of liberty, happiness and pursuit.

Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the Royal Ballet School, Margot's statue was outside my dormitory. Like generations of budding ballet dancers before me, I used to touch her middle finger for luck.

Although Perm is one of the biggest cities in Russia it felt like a different kind of Russia. In Moscow, you have the Kremlin, St. Basil's, a lot of Soviet iconography everywhere. In Perm, it was a different side of Russia. A little more folksy. If Moscow is an iron statue of an eagle, Perm is a matryoshka nesting doll.

... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong.

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

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Give me liberty or a bran muffin!

Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.

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

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

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

The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.

Money for me has only one sound: liberty.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Liberty is about the right to question everything.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.