Best Liberties Quotations
402 Liberties quotes by 276 unique authors
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Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.
— Charles Krauthammer
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If it's not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis, we can expect a continuous…
— Ron Paul
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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you…
— Padgett Powell
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The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
— Catherine McCormack
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Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
— Michael Korda
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You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in…
— Anna Paquin
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People of the Philippines: I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God our forces stand again on Philippine soil—soil consecrated in the blood of…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
— Edward Abbey
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate…
— Barbra Streisand
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I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
— Alexander Hamilton
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Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good…
— Patrick Henry
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So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations…
— Richard Henry Lee
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If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
— Amitav Ghosh
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The existing liberties and the existing gratifications are tied to the requirements of repression: they themselves become instruments of repression.
— Herbert Marcuse
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Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on…
— George Allen
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I feel the best way to ensure Americans' freedom is to tighten restrictions on that freedom in any way possible. Only through wiretaps, illegal searches…
— John Ashcroft
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I have no pride…
— Unknown Author
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...[W]e insist on the principle that no danger or crisis, foreign or domestic, will be solved by Americans surrendering more of their constitutional liberties, in…
— Unknown Author
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Critics of the global warming agenda are motivated... by a love of freedom and civil liberties. They want a discussion based on logic and facts…
— Deneen Borelli
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After each perceived security crisis ended, the United States has remorsefully realized that the abrogation of civil liberties was unnecessary.
— William J. Brennan
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation…
— James Monroe
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In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which…
— Warren G. Harding
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