#libert

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#good #huh #i #liberty #life

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. ↗

— Aly Khan

#basic #basis #built #centuries #developed

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer. ↗

— William Kunstler

#any #away #certain #countries #everywhere

The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #american people #conscience #forcing #liberties

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty. ↗

— John Ruskin

#honorable #liberty #person #restraint #their

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#after #any #anybody #argument #authoritarian

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#certain #closer #constitution #country #created

The higher your station, the less your liberty. ↗

— Sallust

#less #liberty #station #your

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ↗

— Sallust

#few #few men #just #liberty #master

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. ↗

— George Santayana

#adorn #among #any #away #beautiful