I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.
I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.
Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.
Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.
If liberty sang a song, little, as the larynx of a bird, nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.
A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Civilization can never be sustainable.