It must be all the same to the citizens ("ressortissants", Fr. ) of a country that their governing (those in power) speak such language or such other ("telle langue ou telle autre", Fr. ); likewise that it must be all the same to them that these adhere to such or such religion, so long as a full (or complete) liberty is equally garantee for everyone.
Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.
We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.
Hence, in a state of nature, no man had any moral power to deprive another of his life, limbs, property, or liberty; nor the least authority to command or exact obedience from him, except that which arose from the ties of consanguinity.
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
I remember somebody saying something to me about FrostNixon, when Anthony Hopkins does his famous speech, and the difference in the way Anthony did it was to dramatize, essentially, what was a documentary-style version of that speech. I remember someone saying to me, "There is artistic liberty. "
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.
Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.
We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
Perfect love holds the secret of the world's perfect liberty.
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons?
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
This young century will be liberty's century.
Liberty is the right and hope of all humanity.
The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.