#liberty

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#history #largely #liberty #observance #procedural

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#democracy #destruction #difference #does #holy

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#body #deny #deprive #him #his

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right. ↗

— James Larkin

#conscience #enjoys #every #individual #liberty

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#change #choose #domination #liberty #master

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white. ↗

— Eric Liu

#greater #how #less #liberty #like

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

#being #equal #harm #health #his

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #down #everywhere #fall #freedom

Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#civilization #confident #down #everywhere #fall

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#certitude #entail #evidence #faith #free