Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
To be true to its constitutional role, the Supreme Court should refuse to be drawn into making public policy, and it should strike down legislation only when a clear constitutional violation exists. When judicial activists resort to various inventions and theories to impose their personal views on privacy and liberty, they jeopardize the legitimacy of the judiciary as an institution and undermine the role of the other branches of government.
The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
This liberty is all that I request.
It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.
When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security for all.
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society.
What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?
Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
I advocate for protecting the liberty of the net, and securing privacy. I argue against people who believe both are somehow given automatically. They're not.
A politician who commends himself as 'caring' and 'sensitive' because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to do good with other peoples' money.