Quotes of: Religious-liberty Keyword

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Dennis Prager

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Harriet Tubman

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Paul Singer

I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current; but I am not at liberty to travel that road.

Benjamin F. Wade

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

Caleb Cushing

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Denis Kearney

Men naturally resent it when women take greater liberties in dress than men are allowed.

Michael Korda

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Albert Camus

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Alexander Hamilton

A soul of hospitality and a heart of humanity is a house of love, peace, freedom, liberty and justice.

Auliq Ice

If liberty sang a song, little, as the larynx of a bird, nowhere would there remain a tumbling wall.

Ahmad Shamlou

A constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

William Allen White

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state of nature; by the things they see they judge of things very different which they have never seen, and they attribute to men ...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

It is their mores, then, that make the Americans of the United States...capable of maintaining the rule of democracy.... Too much importance is attached to laws and too little to mores.... I am convinced that the luckiest of geographical circumstance...

Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries

There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed. Wait until the chains are broken—until dungeons are not regarded as temples. Wait until solemnity is not mistaken for wisdom—until mental...

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all ...

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.

Divided & Conquered

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

Enchafed Flood

There is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.

Niccolo Machiavelli