#liberty

Personal liberty is not personal license. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#license #personal #personal liberty

Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#agree #also #better #both #democrats

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. ↗

— Learned Hand

#right #spirit #sure #too #which

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. ↗

— Learned Hand

#court #dies #hearts #law #liberty

Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events. ↗

— Henry Knox

#consequences #country #dreadful #events #every

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#money #pay #price #sometimes

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#including #interests #liberty #over #precedence

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life. ↗

— John Biddle

#almighty god #befall #dearer #disposal #glory

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#laws #liberty #permit #right #whatever

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest. ↗

— John Winthrop

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