There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.
Liberty and security are often in direct confrontation and must be balanced in a way that protects us without destroying what is worth protecting.
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Liberty should be understood as freedom from the government, specifically, freedom from the initiation of physical force by the government.
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
In the summer of 1776 our Founding Fathers sought to secure our independence and the liberties that remain the foundation of our nation today.
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street.
At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.
