Top 1200 Statue Of Liberty Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

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

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.

The world exists, as I understand it, to teach the science of liberty.

I don't have a Winslow Homer or a Renoir, but I do have the liberty to live as I like.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

I am thankful for the strong, united response of our university community to the desecration of the James Meredith statue last year, confirming our university values of civility and respect. what it is saying is that the only possible justice for a black in the state of Mississippi is the federal government and if there's anything that we don't need it's that being our only means of expecting justice.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

In wartime, people willing to sacrifice liberty for security.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?" Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into a small statue, which helped avoid uncomfortable questions when people came by. Only she could transform him though. "Yeah. He keeps trying to eat my paints. And I don't want him to watch me kiss you goodbye.

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.

Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.

To place yourself under an obligation is to sell your liberty.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

I would rather not be a king than to forfeit my liberty.

The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.

Liberty (individual freedom) is the prize, responsibility the price.

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree toad is a chef-d'oeurve for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels!

Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.

The altar of liberty totters when it is cemented only with blood

Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.

The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

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

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Hera: Ohh, Thalia Grace, when I get out of here, you'll be sorry you were ever born. Thalia: Save it! You've been nothing but a curse to every child of Zeus for ages. You sent a bunch of intestinally challenged cows after my friend Annabeth Hera: She was disrespectful! Thalia: You dropped a statue on my legs. Hera: It was an accident! Thalia: AND you took my brother

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

Politicians are frightened to death of people who actually believe in liberty.

Art is craft: all art is always and essentially a work of craft: but in the true work of art, before the craft and after it, is some essential durable core of being, which is what the craft works on, and shows, and sets free. The statue in the stone. How does the artist find that, see it, before it's visible? That is a real question.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.

If you sacrifice liberty for security, you will lose both.

Lately, I've discovered the Hellenistic bronzes. I'd never really thought about them much, but then there was this marvelous exhibition - many of them Roman, some of them Greek, all kinds of wonderful standing figures or heads or horses. It all suddenly became a passion of mine. I finally got to see that exhibition, which led to the idea of bringing up the statue in the film.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I fly to meet the good. If there is in a literary work, in a character, in a picture, in a statue, a beautiful spot, that is where my eyes rest; I see only that, I remember only that, all the rest is well-nigh forgotten. What becomes of me when the whole work is beautiful!

I want to err on the side of constitutional liberty and freedom.

Individual liberty depends upon keeping government under control.

Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love.

I still remember the time when I visited the wax museum in London. While there were statues of many sports personalities, including that of Sachin Tendulkar, I didn't see a wax figure of any hockey player. I was a little disappointed at that time, and I hoped that one day, at least in India, someone would make a wax statue of a hockey player.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

In times to resist, do not step aside; stay solid like a statue! In times to step aside, do not resist; be flexible like a snake!

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.