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  • The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

    Taken   Liberty   Events  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

    Liberty   Lambs  
    Isaiah Berlin (2013). “The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas”, p.13, Princeton University Press
  • Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

    Fun   Liberty   Want  
  • Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

  • The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

    Religious   Men   Issues  
  • The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

    Brother   Men   Iron  
  • The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  • I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.

  • Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly.

    Benjamin Franklin, Carl Japikse (2003). “Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School”, p.128, Frog Books
  • The police can't stop an intruder, mugger, or stalker from hurting you. They can pursue him only after he has hurt or killed you. Protecting yourself from harm is your responsibility, and you are far less likely to be hurt in a neighborhood of gun-owners than in one of disarmed citizens - even if you don't own a gun yourself.

  • If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

  • I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms.

  • It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

    Character   Men   Liberty  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1375, e-artnow
  • There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.

    Mean   People   Liberty  
    Howard Zinn (2012). “The Historic Unfulfilled Promise”, p.167, City Lights Publishers
  • I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  • Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence.

  • Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

  • There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

    'Notes for an Oration at Braintree' (Spring 1772)
  • Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.

    Life   Liberty   Said  
    Statement to the Volksgerichtshof [People's Court] of Judge Roland Freisler, February 21, 1943.
  • Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

  • Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

    Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.241, Lexington Books
  • Through the Holy Spirit comes our restoration to paradise, our ascension into the kingdom of heaven, our return to the adoption of sons, our liberty to call God our Father, our being made partakers of the grace of Christ, our being called children of light, our sharing in eternal glory, and, in a word, our being brought into a state of all "fulness of blessing," both in this world and in the world to come, of all the good gifts that are in store for us, by promise hereof, through faith, beholding the reflection of their grace as though they were already present, we await the full enjoyment.

    Children   Father   Son  
  • License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

    Love   Wise   Mean  
    "I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)
  • Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind.

  • Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

    "Christians and Muslims". "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. September 19, 2008.
  • Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

    "Liberty and Democracy". Baltimore Evening Sun (April 13, 1925) as quoted in "A Second Mencken Chrestomathy: A New Selection from the Writings of America's Legendary Editor, Critic, and Wit" edited by Terry Teachout (p. 35), 1994.
  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

    Freedom   Stupid   Mind  
    Henry David Thoreau, Richard Dillman (1987). “Thoreau's comments on the art of writing”
  • The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

    Self   Liberty   Bondage  
    Florence L. Barclay (2012). “The Rosary”, p.168, The Floating Press
  • I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

  • You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

    Speech in New York City, January 7, 1965.
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