liberty

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

President Obama and his radical feminist enforcers have had it in for Catholic medical providers from the get-go. It's about time all people of faith fought back against this unprecedented encroachment on religious liberty. First, they came for the Catholics. Who's next?

Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

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