#liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#freedom #home #hope #immigration #inscription

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#liberty #morals #rights #age

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

#less #liberty #price #repression #than

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#generation #happiness #human #human rights #inhabitants

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime. ↗

— June Carter Cash

#anything #because #been #character #flown

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. ↗

— Samuel Chase

#christian religion #christians #denominations #entitled #equal

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#american #benefits #citizens #civilization #economic

I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#care #damage #doctor #does #each

A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#america #could #few #forget #fought

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#essential #give #liberty #little #neither