#libert

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#liberty #lose #man #others #over

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

— Mikhail Bakunin

#bravely #childish #desires #god #harbor

Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#faith #fatal #immediately #instrument #interests

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative. ↗

— Robert Barclay

#conscience #contrary #first #force #goods

Every law is an infraction of liberty. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#law #liberty

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#liberties #man #only #other #protect

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error. ↗

— Elmer Davis

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A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#liberty #light #place #should #university

We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#dignity #freedom #heard #hope #i

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will. ↗

— John Acton

#both #condition #conscience #domains #duty