#liberty

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#governed #greater #liberty #part #well

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#brave #even #liberty #makes #man

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#conscience #enjoyment #exercise #free #interest

If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe. ↗

— Jim Talent

#commitment #extended #freedom #generation #generations

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. ↗

— George Orwell

#hear #liberty #means #people #right

I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. ↗

— George Orwell

#eternal #eternal vigilance #i #liberty #much

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it. ↗

— Ron Paul

#comes #creator #freedom #government #granting

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. ↗

— Ron Paul

#cause #conceived #conscription #death #ever

The obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people. ↗

— Ron Paul

#bringing #economic #liberty #no-win #obligations