#liberty

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Todd Akin

#believe #blessed #creator #defines #freedom

Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#against #because #done #entitlements #founders

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#despotism #destruction #including #legal #liberty

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#each #god #his #liberty #natural

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#charity #doubtful #liberty #necessary #things

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. ↗

— Richard Baxter

#liberty #necessary #things #unity #unnecessary

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#courage #end #happiness #independence #liberty

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell L. Wilkie

#hate #liberties #liberty #loss #love

For now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#ever #fact #forefront #hate #keep