--- title: "5 Liberty Word Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 5 Liberty Word quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Liberty Word sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/842/robert-g-ingersoll-4527_aaron_not-one-word-was-said-by-moses-or-aaron_1062493.jpg" --- > [“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-g-ingersoll/not-one-word-was-said-by-moses-or-aaron-as-to-the-wickedness-of/) [Robert G. Ingersoll](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-g-ingersoll/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/842/robert-g-ingersoll-4527_aaron_not-one-word-was-said-by-moses-or-aaron_1062493.jpg) > [“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-ellsworth/liberty-is-a-word-which-according-as-it-is-used-comprehends-the-most/) [Oliver Ellsworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-ellsworth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/oliver-ellsworth-29122_doing-good_liberty-is-a-word-which-according-as-it_1551808.jpg) > [Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/liberty-a-word-without-which-all-other-words-are-vain/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e08/anonymous-1_freedom_liberty-a-word-without-which-all-other-w_2491693.jpg) > [Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-ellsworth/liberty-is-a-word-which-according-as-it-is-used-comprehends-the-most-2/) [Oliver Ellsworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-ellsworth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f06/oliver-ellsworth-29122_adoration_liberty-is-a-word-which-according-as-it_2510662.jpg) > [Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-ellsworth/liberty-is-a-word-which-according-as-it-is-used-comprehends-the-most-3/) [Oliver Ellsworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-ellsworth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39e/oliver-ellsworth-29122_evil_liberty-is-a-word-which-according-as-it_3104463.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/liberty-word/#itemlist", "name": "Liberty Word Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Not one word was said by Moses or Aaron as to the wickedness of depriving a human being of his liberty. Not a word was said in favor of liberty. Not the slightest intimation that a human being was justly entitled to the product of his own labor. Not a word about the cruelty of masters who would destroy even the babes of slave mothers. It seems to me wonderful that this God did not tell the king of Egypt that no nation could enslave another, without also enslaving itself; that it was impossible to put a chain around the limbs of a slave, without putting manacles upon the brain of the master. Why did he not tell him that a nation founded upon slavery could not stand? Instead of declaring these things, instead of appealing to justice, to mercy and to liberty, he resorted to feats of jugglery. Suppose we wished to make a treaty with a barbarous nation, and the president should employ a sleight-of-hand performer as envoy extraordinary, and instruct him, that when he came into the presence of the savage monarch, he should cast down an umbrella or a walking stick, which would change into a lizard or a turtle; what would we think? Would we not regard such a performance as beneath the dignity even of a president? And what would be our feelings if the savage king sent for his sorcerers and had them perform the same feat? If such things would appear puerile and foolish in the president of a great republic, what shall be said when they were resorted to by the creator of all worlds? How small, how contemptible such a God appears!”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Robert G. 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We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad. If the public are unable to protest against the unjust impositions of foreigners, in this case we do not enjoy our natural rights, and a weakness of government is the cause. If we mean to have our natural rights and properties protected, we must first create a power which is able to do it, and in our case there is no want of resources, but a civil constitution which may draw them out and point their force. . . . Some men are mightily afraid of giving power lest it should be improved for oppression; this is doubtless possible, but where is the probability. The same objection may be made against the constitution of every state in the union, and against every possible mode of government; because a power of doing good always implies a power to do evil if the person or party be disposed. The right of the legislature to ordain laws binding on the people, gives them a power to make bad laws. The right of the judge to inflict punishment, gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges. If a power to promote the best interest of the people, necessarily implies a power to do evil, we must never expect such a constitution in theory as will not be open in some respects to the objections of carping and jealous men. The new Constitution is perhaps more cautiously guarded than any other in the world, and at the same time creates a power which will be able to protect the subject; yet doubtless objections may be raised, and so they may against the constitution of each state in the union. . . . If, my countrymen, you wait for a constitution which absolutely bars a power of doing evil, you must wait long, and when obtained it will have no power of doing good. I allow you are oppressed, but not from the quarter that jealous and wrongheaded men would insinuate. 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