Liberties Quotes Page 2

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us.

We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.

We cannot choose freedom established on a hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it.

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonderchild.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Security without liberty is called prison.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Women will be no longer made the slaves of, or dependent upon men .

.. They will be equal in education, rights, privileges and personal liberty.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism;

and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society.

Nothing is more precious than Independence and Liberty.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.

Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again.

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation;

but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

For no People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can they easily be subdued, where Knowledge is diffusd and Virtue preservd . On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own Weight, without the Aid of foreign Invaders.

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.