Quotes of: Personal-liberty Keyword

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.

Larry Craig

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

Mikhail Bakunin

Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself.

Saxby Chambliss

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

Friedrich August von Hayek

If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought up under monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty.

Anna Howard Shaw

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Friedrich Hayek

Since I became chairman, I've tried to turn EFF into civil liberties and responsibilities.

Esther Dyson

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Betty Hill

Tom Doniphon: Whoa, take 'er easy there, Pilgrim.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Nora Ericson: Poppa - go put your pants on!

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Wendell Wilkie

Liberals are stalwart defenders of civil liberties - provided we're only talking about criminals.

Ann Coulter

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Viktor E. Frankl

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They w...

A Clockwork Orange

The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty in which the object was to conquer tyranny or die for liberty. This Terror was...

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, “Are we free?” I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot h...

Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

The human beings at the helm of the new nation [USA], whatever their limitations [slave owners, anti-democracy], were truly revolutionary. The theory of liberty born in that era, the seed of the idea, was perfect. More important, the idea itself carr...

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

I swear that while I live I will do what little I can to preserve and to augment the liberties of man, woman, and child. It is a question of justice, of mercy, of honesty, of intellectual development. . It is a question of honesty. The man who is not...

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

High Pockets: Well, Mr. Professor. I thought you left town. What are you doin' out here? Ransom Stoddard: I'm waiting for Liberty Valance. Why doesn't he come out? Kaintuck: Well, th-th-that's n-n-none of our b-b-b-business.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance