Freedom Quote by Edward Dahlberg Download Open image “The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.” — Edward Dahlberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Liberty Regulation Understood
The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3” — Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly Copy Share Image
“the story of liberty is a history of the limitation of a government power, not the increase of it.” — William J Federer Copy Share Image
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
The tendency of all strong governments has always been to suppress liberty, partly in order to ease the processes of rule, partly from sheer… — John A. Hobson Copy Share Image
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought. — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the history of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
I know sage, wormwood, and hyssop, but I can't smell character unless it stinks. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.” — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.” — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps. — Philip DeFranco Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security… — Jon Husted Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for… — Carolyn Jessop Copy Share Image
“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image