Quotes with pro-liberty

Quotes 141 till 160 of 267.

  • John Milton License they mean when they cry liberty.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Man has lost the basic skill of the ape, the ability to scratch its back. Which gave it extraordinary independence, and the liberty to associate for reasons other than the need for mutual back-scratching.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Caleb Cushing Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Benjamin Tucker Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.
    Libertys Declaration of Purpose
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Aldous Huxley Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Woody Allen My love life is terrible. The last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.
    Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • William Howard Taft Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Ellen Key Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry James Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman Old England liberty - to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Frederick Farrar One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
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  • Abraham Lincoln Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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