#liberty

When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#liberty #some #vice #virtue

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#always #any #back #conquering #difficulty

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

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

#alike #attained #best #chiefly #democracy

Peace is liberty in tranquillity. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#liberty #tranquillity

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

— Frederic Bastiat

#despotism #destruction #including #legal #liberty

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#ceases #individual #individual liberty #liberty #state

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#also #arbitrary #desire #domestic #felt

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. ↗

— Bruce Barton

#curious #die #free #get #individual

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ↗

— August Bebel

#civilization #enemy #liberty