Quotes of: Personal-liberty Keyword

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

Bianca Jagger

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Will Self

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty.

Mitch Daniels

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

Mikhail Bakunin

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable.

Miguel de Cervantes

The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

Federica Montseny

For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Emma Goldman

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Ellen Key

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Benjamin Tucker

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

James Madison

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

James Madison

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Jose Marti

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Dick Cheney

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Woodrow Wilson

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

Sarah Fielding

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Quincy Adams

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher