Quotes of: Liberties Keyword

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

George William Curtis

The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.

Catherine McCormack

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Charles de Montesquieu

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Henry David Thoreau

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

Emma Bonino

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Edward Gibbon

Laughter clears the atmosphere and it gives liberty to every soul.

Euginia Herlihy

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

George Orwell

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

James Madison

It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.

Jose Marti

While a people preserves its language; it preserves the marks of liberty.

Jose Rizal

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

George Washington

The power to arrest - to deprive a citizen of liberty - must be used fairly, responsibly, and without bias.

Loretta Lynch

When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.

Umberto Eco

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Antonio de Mendoza

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.

Barbara Amiel

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Sandra Day O'Connor