Quotes about Liberties

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights.

The restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are both to be reckoned among their rights.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community, require time to mature them for execution. An army, so large as seriously to menace those liberties, could only be formed by progressive augmentations; which would suppose, not merely a temporary combination between the legislature and executive, but a continued conspiracy for a series of time.

When economic power desires to be left alone it uses the philosophy of laissez faire to discourage political restraint upon economic freedom. When it wants to make use of the police power of the state to subdue rebellions and discontent in the ranks of its helots, it justifies the use of political coercion and the resulting suppression of liberties by insisting that peace is more precious than freedom and that its only desire is social peace.

I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

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

In no instance have the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.