#libert

But I am, personally, not a gambler. I wouldn’t spend £1 on the lottery, let alone take a punt on a pregnancy. The stakes are far, far too high. I can’t agree with a society that would force me to bet on how much I could love under duress. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#freedom #freedom-of-choice #liberty #pro-choice #freedom

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others. ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

#justice #liberty #love

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it. ↗

— Charles Carleton Coffin

#the-story-of-liberty #age

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#liberty #patriot-act #politics #freedom

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#diffusion #guardian #knowledge #liberty #only

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#civil #civil liberties #draw #guess #homosexuals

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced. ↗

— Charles Kennedy

#choice #choices #country #faced #hard

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#believe #believed #end #future #great

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#demand #freedom #freedom of speech #how #liberties

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