A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue. Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. Douglas MacArthur quotes Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke quotes Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that.. of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support. Thomas Jefferson quotes But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Edmund Burke quotes Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson quotes God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country. Benjamin Franklin quotes There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty Margaret Thatcher quotes What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. Thomas Jefferson quotes Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author of nature, because necessary for his own sustenance. Thomas Jefferson quotes |