Quotes of: Personal-liberty Keyword

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68

Gandhi On Non-Violence

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." -Harry S. Truman

Reflections of Liberty: Memoir by Barbara Post-Askin

I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. .

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Every man should stand under the blue and stars, under the infinite flag of nature, the peer of every other man.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

Patricia Hewitt

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

Paul Harris

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over w...

Sharron Angle

But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.

Sonny Perdue

Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just is,’ and too few see it as something that ‘is’ only because someone, somewhere was faced with the formidable reality that to keep liberty meant paying a stiff price.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Obama when it comes to civil liberties, and I'm going to make the claim that I'm stronger than Romney when it comes to dollars and cents.

Gary Johnson

Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when the government does those things, it is facilitating liberty. When it goes beyond those things, it becomes ...

Grover Norquist

[first lines] Ransom Stoddard: [descending from railway carriage and consulting pocket watch] Thanks, Jason. On time.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

B. R. Ambedkar

There are doubtless those who would wish to lock up all those who suspected of terrorist and other serious offences and, in the time-honored phrase, throw away the key. But a suspect is by definition a person whom no offence has been proved. Suspicio...

The Rule of Law

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes...

Restoring Education: Central to American Greatness Fifteen Principles That Liberated Mankind from the Politics of Tyranny

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

North of Beautiful

How will the remaining portion of the community like to have the amusements that shall be permitted to them regulated by the religious and moral sentiments of the stricter Calvinists and Methodists? Would they not, with considerable peremptoriness, d...

On Liberty