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Liberty Quotes by Learned Hand
- I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me,…
- Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best…
- The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks…
- What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress…
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
- If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the…
- As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as…
- The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .
- Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still…
- Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
- The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
- Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
- The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
More Liberty Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
- A man should be upright, not be kept upright. — Marcus Aurelius
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we the people, stand once… — Michele Bachmann
- If there was one word on a motivation or world view, that one word would be 'liberty.' That's what inspires me and… — Michele Bachmann
- It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power… — Francis Bacon
- Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is the prevention of control by others. — Lord Acton
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. — Lord Acton