Freedom Quote by Jonathan Mayhew Download Open image “There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness” — Jonathan Mayhew ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Freedom Liberty Men Strikes Term
For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
“Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty… — Thomas Stephen Szasz Copy Share Image
“licentiousness has seldom produced the loss of liberty; but that the tyranny of rulers has almost always effected it.” — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
The two greatest things that all men aim at in any free government are liberty and permanency. We have had liberty enough - too… — Thomas D Copy Share Image
Men have always been obliged to fight to preserve liberty. Constitutions and laws do not safeguard liberty. It can be preserved only by a… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”—George Washington.” — Richard Rudomanski Copy Share Image
It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society,… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
They are more properly ‘The Messengers of Satan to buffet us.’ No rulers are properly God’s ministers, but such as are ‘just, ruling in… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in… — Jonathan Mayhew 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
