- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty Quotes
Freedom is never fully settled.
A recurring warning runs through this page - that stripping freedom from people we oppose puts everyone's freedom at risk, since the same power can later be turned against those we love. Related reading continues in Freedom.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes destructive to both human happiness and human liberty.
- Life
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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right.
- Down
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Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
- Government
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Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
- Power
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Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- Fear
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Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
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If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
- Price
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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
- Belief
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Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
- Nov 07, 2020