This liberty is all that I request.
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.
Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections. . . [those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,. . . have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.
Liberty, understood by materialists as the right to do or not to do anything not directly injurious to others, we understand as the faculty of choosing, among the various modes of fulfilling duty, those most in harmony with our own tendencies.
We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbor from the storm and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and sudden remedy of all evils?
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.
Little liberties are great offenses.
Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some
Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.
No one should be surprised that in the balance between national security and civil liberties, President [Donald] Trump, like candidate Trump wants to be more aggressive.
In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.
The United Nations defines violence against women as any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life.
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .
Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.
