Quotes 161 till 180 of 246.
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The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.
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The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138 -
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well-meaning but without understanding.
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The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
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The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.
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The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility.
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The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week.
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
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The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
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The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
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The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love.
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The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
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