A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
We're not going to baby sit a civil war.
The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and (...) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.
There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.
[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.
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 men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.
Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.
There will be trying times during Obama's presidency, and liberty will need staunch defenders. Can Obama reshape liberalism to be, as it was under F.D.R., a fighting faith, unapologetically patriotic and strong in the defense of liberty? That would b...
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Mac MacGuff: Liberty Bell, if you put one more Bac-O on that potato, I'll spank your monkey behind. Liberty Bell: [laughs]
Ransom Stoddard: I don't want to kill him, I just want to put him in jail! Tom Doniphon: Ohhh...
Tom Doniphon: Pompey, go find Doc Willoughby. If he's sober, bring him back.
Link Appleyard: The jail's only got one cell, and the lock's broke and I sleep in it.
Dutton Peabody: As for you, Old Man: go West and grow young with the country!
