Quotes with pro-liberty

Quotes 81 till 100 of 267.

  • Boris Sidis If ceaseless vigilance is the price of liberty, more so is it true that ceaseless criticism of ever new opinions and ever new views, however distasteful, bizarre, and paradoxical, is the price of truth.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Richard Lovelace If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such liberty.
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  • Aristotle If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Philip Wylie If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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  • Anna Howard Shaw If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Algernon Sidney If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
    Algernon Sidney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Carl Schurz If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Bill Hicks If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.
    Palko v. Connecticut
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Arthur Keith In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Arthur Keith In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Will Durant In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Anne Baxter In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
    Anne Baxter
    American actress (1923 - 1985)
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  • Emma Goldman In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, ''until death doth part.''
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • William Dean Howells Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Thomas Jefferson It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Francis Bacon It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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