Liberties Quotes (page 8)

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• becomes
• quote
• enjoy

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68 Thomas Merton

• evening
• patriotism
• using people

Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so. Ron Paul

• giving
• conscience
• know

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton

• believe
• enough
• only

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. H. L. Mencken

• people
• bane
• army

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins. Elbridge Gerry

• humanity
• world
• worlds

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. William Lloyd Garrison

• world
• best
• hope

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. Bill Frist

• motivational
• giving up
• giving

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin

• personality
• exercise
• personal

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others. Billy Sunday

• end
• manly
• becoming

Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors. Frederic William Farrar

• none
• protecting
• protectiveness

The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected. William O. Douglas

• attention
• feeling
• humanity

But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? Francis Wright

• ours
• unjust
• others

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny. Frances Wright

• soul
• equality
• equal

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. Frances Wright

• free
• evening
• free spirit

A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. Francis Picabia