Quotes of: Civil-liberties Keyword

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

Gabriela Sabatini

I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.

Hanoi Hannah

Liberty is freedom constrained only by our responsibility to respect the equal rights of others.

Dave Champion

A mind without freedom, a life without liberty, is like a heart without love, a journey without a destination.

Debasish Mridha

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.

Jacques Delors

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

John Maynard Keynes

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Jay Leno

It is a clear truth that those who every day barter away other men's liberty will soon care little for their own.

James Otis

It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.

Noam Chomsky

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

Lin Yutang

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

Jonathan Edwards

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

Earl Warren

Dr. Floyd: I'm sorry, I'm simply not at liberty to say.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Algernon Sidney

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

Algernon Sidney

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

Robert Shapiro

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Alvar Aalto