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“All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.”
Quote by -Barack Obama
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
Quote by -Thomas Jefferson
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“Your love of liberty – your respect for the laws – your habits of industry – and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
“The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreeably to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.”
Quote by -George Washington Carver
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Quote by -D.H. Lawrence
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Quote by -John Milton
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Quote by -Bertrand Russell
To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
Quote by -Hugh Laurie
"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."
Quote by -Norman Vincent Peale
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
Quote by -Theodore Roosevelt
"No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire,"
Quote by -Abraham Joshua Heschel
"I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas"
Quote by -John F Kennedy
"Win win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolatedtechniques, they won't hold up. Even if you set them up in the beginning, there isno way to maintain them without personal integrity and a relationship of trust."
Quote by -Stephen R. Covey
"Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous."
Quote by -Johann Von Goethe
"Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself"
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
Quote by -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose."
Quote by -Simone Weil
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon."
Quote by -Thomas Paine
"Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed."
Quote by -Michael Korda
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
"What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man."
Quote by -Robert Ingersoll
"It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything."
Quote by -Deborah Moggach
"Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"I went to the library and learned how checks work. I found out that routing numbers are like zip codes: the checks are sent to the bank that correlates to the routing number. If I manipulate those numbers to a bank far away, it would take longer to get back to the bank, which gave me more time to write more bad checks."
Quote by -Frank Abagnale
"I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches."
Quote by -George Clooney
"Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough."
Quote by -George W. Bush