I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.
Without children, men have more liberty to earn less – that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
America was not built on kindness or the Christianity of Christ. It was not built on freedom or liberty. This nation was built on white supremacy.
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.
What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.
People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment.
Facts, like people, want to be free – and when they’re free, liberty is usually around the corner.
I was raised in the ’70s, and I’ve worked with people I love, and I’ve been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.
Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
The sovereignty of one’s self over one’s self is called Liberty.
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
Well, we can’t afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Ever since college, I have been a libertarian – socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.
Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the ‘New Hampshire Gazette’ appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?
What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.
The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
I admit my view of the world is colored by my legal and business experiences at Liberty.
As far as Gary Johnson is concerned, he is not a credible person on foreign policy. We need somebody like that. He doesn’t understand religious liberty. I have some other concerns about his suitability and reliability in, you know, for the presidency. I just don’t think he’s a credible option.
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
The free nations of the world will not be pushed around by terrorist cowards whose goal is to spread fear and destruction and destroy our liberty and way of life.
IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.
Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?
I am a woman, and as such, I experience the ever-increasing restrictions on our liberty in our country through the development of Islamic fundamentalism.
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
When my grandchildren ask, ‘Where were you when Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to Lady Liberty?’ I want to make sure I can tell them I was there protecting America.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
I feel constricted if I become too much aware of the act of making. Liberty is lost and instead of an instinctual lyrical expression the whole thing becomes arid.
If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, – Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
There is nothing that I shudder at more than the idea of a separation of the Union. Should such an event ever happen, which I fervently pray God to avert, from that date I view our liberty gone.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
Every day in school, we said the pledge to the flag, ‘with liberty and justice for all,’ and I believed all that.
I was the first critic ever to win a Tony – for co-authoring ‘Elaine Stritch at Liberty.’ Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It’s a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind – a thought he can only know if he’s made something himself.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism – including, of course, legal despotism?
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers – one that would protect Americans’ liberty at all times – both in war, and in peace.
People don’t realize what’s really going on in this country. There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren’t being held accountable for. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for: freedom, liberty and justice for all.
In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all.
