#liberty

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#democracy #freedom #liberty #freedom

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

#history #liberty #politics #freedom

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. ↗

— Luis Valdez

#freedom #history #liberty #native-american #society

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#democracy #fearless #freedom #liberty #freedom

Every election is determined by the people who show up. ↗

— Larry J. Sabato

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#control #creating #forge #freedom #future

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#because #first #free #government #liberty

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. ↗

— Voltairine de Cleyre

#give #i #liberty #men #never

If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks. ↗

— Mark Twain

#agnosticism #atheism #atheist #freedom #god

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those. ↗

— John Frame

#both #christian #commands #conservative #defending