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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.Collection: Liberty
Liberty is a slow fruit.Collection: Liberty
The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.Collection: Liberty
What we must remember, however, is that preservation of liberties does not depend on motives. A suppression of liberty has the same effect whether the suppressor be a reformer or an outlaw. The only protection against misguided zeal is constant alertness to infractions of the guarantees of liberty contained in our Constitution. Each surrender of liberty to the demands of the moment makes easier another, larger surrender. . .Collection: Liberty
It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.Collection: Liberty
Those who prefer security to liberty deserve neither.Collection: Liberty
Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.Collection: Liberty
Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.Collection: Liberty
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?Collection: Liberty
We dare not enter the kingdom of liberty with mere life-homage to truth and nonviolence.Collection: Liberty
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.Collection: Liberty
And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' "interests," I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can.Collection: Liberty
Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.Collection: Liberty
Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.Collection: Liberty
I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.Collection: Liberty
Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.Collection: Liberty
The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.Collection: Liberty
There is one thing diviner than duty, namely, the bond of obligation transmuted into liberty.Collection: Liberty
Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.Collection: Liberty
But it can be laid down as a rule that those who speak most of liberty are least inclined to use it.Collection: Liberty
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternativeCollection: Liberty
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.Collection: Liberty
A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism and coercion.Collection: Liberty
Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured.Collection: Liberty
No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them.Collection: Liberty
Liberty never meant the license to do anything at will.Collection: Liberty
One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.Collection: Liberty
If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.Collection: Liberty
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.Collection: Liberty
There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.Collection: Liberty
At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.Collection: Liberty
Liberty is the essential basis, the sine qua non, of morality.Collection: Liberty
Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.Collection: Liberty
For we love liberty just as we love peace.Collection: Liberty
In a thousand fields the welfarists, statists, socialists, and interventionists are daily driving for more restrictions on individual liberty.Collection: Liberty
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?Collection: Liberty
The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.Collection: Liberty
Hee that marries for wealth sells his liberty.Collection: Liberty
A beane in liberty is better then a comfit in prison.Collection: Liberty
And it proves, in the last place, that liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other departments.Collection: Liberty
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.Collection: Liberty
Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.Collection: Liberty
Subjects have no greater liberty in a popular than in a monarchial state. That which deceives them is the equal participation of command.Collection: Liberty
Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.Collection: Liberty
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it. For in a way beset with those that contend, on one side for too great Liberty , and on the other side for too much Authority , 'tis hard to passe between the points of both unwounded.Collection: Liberty
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.Collection: Liberty
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.Collection: Liberty
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.Collection: Liberty
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.Collection: Liberty