#libert

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#assertion #be careful #careful #designated #interests

I was on the state board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union. ↗

— Betty Hill

#board #civil #civil liberties #directors #i

Civil liberty is the status of the man who is guaranteed by law and civil institutions the exclusive employment of all his own powers for his own welfare. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#civil liberty #employment #exclusive #guaranteed #his

Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised? ↗

— Joseph Howe

#britain #brought #fathers #fire #liberty

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#dear #heart #inequality #itself #liberty

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. ↗

— David Hume

#kind #liberty #lost #once #seldom

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty. ↗

— Claudio Hummes

#church #context #development #dignity #effort

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#agreeable #almost #boredom #comes #excessive

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#being #doing #expanding #goes #i

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#civil liberties #claim #compromised #even #fighting