#libert

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #libert




To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. But as the king of vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defense against his beak and claws.


John Stuart Mill


#attitude

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.


Franklin D. Roosevelt


#continuing #control #enough #government #informed

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.


Theodore Roosevelt


#equally #liberty #order #without

I think any man would be nervous if his liberty is at stake.


Wesley Snipes


#his #i #i think #liberty #man

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.


Bill Frist


#depends #expansion #freedom #hope #increasingly

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.


Jon Stewart


#anything #ashcroft #attack #attorney #attorney general

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.


Ezra Stiles


#each #effectually #find #gives #liberty

We remain in Iraq because we know that sometimes liberty needs some nursing before it can grow on its own.


Virginia Foxx


#before #grow #iraq #know #liberty

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.


Marquis de Sade


#expense #hardly #liberty #order #social

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.


John Charles Polanyi


#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence